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Originally Posted by castlebravo92
There's been a general decline in civilizational capability in the West. It took the US 4 years to build the Golden Gate bridge in 1933 (finishing in 1937). With all of the advances in technology and population, does anyone think the US could accomplish something similar in a similar amount of time?
In some ways, China is sitting where the US was at the cusp of WW2 in that they account for a large percentage of world heavy industrial capability, and realistically, it's probably double what the US has at this point.
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Unfortunately. This piece from the April 2023 edition of the Atlantic does a great job of breaking down the breakdown in US naval/nautical capabilities since the end of the Cold War. It also proposes specific, practical fixes to get us back on track.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-china/673090/
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