Decline of the western society #2

This sums up the malaise in those western countries that exported their factories. This is a post on the linked thread. Interesting article by the way.

mtnforge
Feb 10
Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

Worked with a Russian fellow. Been a couple years since, but he talked about there are many small mom and pop tank and armor, weapons and ammo shops, the Russian procurement system contracts work to. Such as small outfits who install upgrade kits on late T65, T70s and R80s, ot they will do a bunch pf final fit up, or install reactive armor kits, lot of shops employ ladies and babooshkas who do the intricate painstaking and detailing things, he said similar with ammo and small arms components. Makes common sense, used to be similar in the US, I grew up and worked 47 years as a welder, a lot of it in aerospace and .mil contract shops, when we used to manufacture things in this country, small shops are what makes big production possible, its similar in the automotive and truck industry till the tarrif/offshore wealth transfer treaty rackets started.

But whats really critical and you almost never hear of it because being a makere and a craftsman in skilled trade has been so long looked down on now since the 70's, os institutional knowledge of the skilled labor trades, you lose that it requires decades to recreate it. Probably more time now because so many have forgotten what an axe, a shovel, and a Rifle are for, to coin a phrase. Besides the corporate vulturism and class structure begin in the 80's, if you did not go to colledge you where dirt, and they did everything to diminish the labor value of skilled labor, and it was nothing to do with any union stuff, this was flat out comdpiracy across corporate America to set the cheapest pay rates they would all stick with in order to create rea;;y low wages because no longer was there any compotition for say a skilled welder like me, every ridgid tube assembly house, be it GE's engine shop in Hookset NH or PanAm's at JFK, they all paid the same wage, same if you would go to a general metal fab job shop, same with tool and die guys, or precision sheetmetal fabricators, after awhile no one wanted a career in these trades, they paid just above survival wages.

So there is that and believe you me, it matters more than a lot of things, you dont have a skilled workforce you dont make much of anything.

My last welding gig was in a premier rocket and jet engine tube assembly shop, to do weldments they have to have certified fusion welders, i was the only old hand there, lot of years there, one day the big cheese comes asks me how can the company get any skilled welders, nobody shows up to job fares or answers adds. Told him outright, the pay sucks for welders, nobody wants to be one because of it, few weeks later I get a $10 dollar hour raise unasked, shows up in my paycheck, and they ask me to become a weld teacher for the company, train green employees how to weld, but other than a couple old guys like me, they still could not get new welders with a pretty decent payrate increase. They just could not get it. Skilled labor, true cradt labor, its a culture thing and a tradition thing and it was destroyed by globo=peedo to squeeze the last buck out of America, i watched it happen.

That was trhe conversation with this Russian fellow, we where talking about the various reades in each of our countries, and it was clear to me Russia never lost that institutional/time honored traditions in trades and skills and makers crafts, all those people are no more there is no legacy here in the US, but we sure did have it in my lifetime in America, just like Russia still has. The west is Kaput, I could see it in the early 90's coming, for the reasons above. And all the implications.

Russia can never be defeated now, not because of manufacturing might but because of spirit, because its a nation made up of men and woman who not only know what an axe a shovel and a Rifle is for, they are good folks who appreciate what those things are for and more so those who know how to use them. The manufacturing might and capacity follows.

Those ladies putting upgrade kits on tanks and BMPs, they put Love into them, O'm not shitting about it, its love because people like that when they put their labor into it, they do so because, it ain't gonna fail because of me, mentality and mindset.

Its something the satanists despise as nothing else and destroying that in a productive prosperous happy nation is the prime directive. All that you ain't shit unless you go tocalledge was class and culture warfare/pogrom. To wreck what was gear about America.

And you can't turn it back on like lights in a new factory no matter what you do or throw money at. That stuff came with the founding of America. It built this country. It is men in suits who destroyed it after men in a pair of dungarees and wotk boots created it, (woman included too absolutely).


https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/on-shells-and-armor-the-war-of-sustainment