Quote Originally Posted by RLS0812 View Post
That depends on which countries are fighting ...
The US would not be able to produce anything if China cut off all trade ( almost no industrial capacity left ) .



Copper, for example, would probably lose value on the US side of the pond - as the only 3 copper smelters left in the US are not tooled for producing general goods. (( 2 of them are used for producing water pipes and pipe fittings ))
Also note: There are 7 operational steel smelters left - owned by 3 companies - which do not have to capacity to rebuild US industry back to WW2 levels for an estimated 20 - 40 years.
And thats just f ing lovely. We go into WW3 with no way to build weapons for 20-40 years and have to use antiquated junk or junk bought from china to fight. Lovely.......its like the kid lighting a firecracker in his hand to go off...