This makes no sense. Wars are typically existential. In a hot war with another state, why would the government not use all of industrial capacity that is more useful to make weapons to make weapons. It’s well documented that governments can repurpose unnecessary parts of industry (say training Grok or an open source chatbot) into whatever else.
Biden used them for largely irrelevant reasons. This indicates that with an actual war, usage would be wider and more extensive.
Wartime powers let governments do whatever they want essentially. Even recently Biden has flexed the defense production act.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/article/2128446/during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production/
Did he do it in a way that hurt the bottom line of any powerful US company? No, I don’t think so.
While the same power that existed in WWII still exist on paper today, the US government is much less capable to take actions.
We’re not at war. If we were in a war with real stakes, I’d expect to see those powers used much more aggressively.
This makes no sense. Wars are typically existential. In a hot war with another state, why would the government not use all of industrial capacity that is more useful to make weapons to make weapons. It’s well documented that governments can repurpose unnecessary parts of industry (say training Grok or an open source chatbot) into whatever else.
Biden used them for largely irrelevant reasons. This indicates that with an actual war, usage would be wider and more extensive.