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Comment by ceejayoz

Because they don't have to, yet. It's an "if", and it's a big "if".

IMO, the US should publicly commit to a solid order for a very large number of the weapon systems Taiwan and Ukraine would likely need in an extended double conflict. We saw in COVID (with things like tests) that "we need a billion of X, but we'll dribble out the order in much smaller quantities" tends to make industry leery of evaporating demand after making big capital investments.

parent ceejayoz 3 years ago

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