This is taken from a link shared on another thread. I thought it is relevant to this thread as well.
Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon has begun approaching American automakers, including Ford and General Motors, along with other commercial manufacturers, about helping to produce weapons and military supplies.
The Journal itself described the move as reminiscent of a practice used during World War II. But not the version of World War II most Americans were taught in school. Not the clean narrative of Allied liberation. The earlier phase. The buildup. The part where governments quietly began converting civilian industry into war machines because they were preparing for something far larger than they were telling their people.
In the 1930s, Hitler didn’t militarize German industry because the country was under attack. He did it because expansion was the plan, and the factories had to be ready before the public understood what was coming.
Stalin followed a similar path with his industrial programs, shifting civilian production toward military capacity not in response to an immediate threat, but to build the infrastructure of centralized control. That is the pattern. Build the machine first. Justify it later.
And this didn’t happen overnight. It has been escalating in full view for weeks, and too many of us have chosen to ignore it. In early March, Trump summoned CEOs from Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, L3Harris, and Honeywell to the White House after Iran strikes had deeply depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles. He announced they had agreed to “quadruple production” of what he called “Exquisite Class Weaponry.” Days later, NBC reported that the administration was privately discussing invoking the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to produce more munitions, a 1950s-era law designed for wartime emergencies.
By late March, the Pentagon had signed framework agreements with defense contractors to put the military on what it called a “wartime footing.” And now it isn’t just pressuring defense contractors. It’s reaching beyond the defense industry entirely, asking the companies that build our cars to start building our bombs. That is not what a country does when a war is almost over. That is what a country does when it is preparing for something much bigger.
Heather Delaney Reese 15.04.26
So is the so called 'ceasefire' a marking time ploy for Trump to get more troops and munitions into the ME?
Does the US need c.10,000 more troops and more vessels to enforce a SoH blockade in the Sea of Oman?
I guess an all out attack is one way for Trump to resolve this shitshow.
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