If WWII boosted America's economy after the war, would it be plausible that the U.S. would intentionally try to start WWIII in order to attempt to regain it's economy?
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Justin79Smith
ANSWERS: 6
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Maybe in some kind of fantasy-rainbow universe.
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No. The war would be fought in the middle east and that would harm the economy even more.
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Nope, because countless people would die.
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I don't think a world war would be very profitable for the U.S. at this point. During WWII, the U.S. gave it's economy a big boost with all the jobs opened up in weapons factories, and America now isn't nearly as industrialized of a nation as it was back then. If WWIII started today, the biggest profiteer by a long shot would be China, whose industrial infrastructure and droves of cheap, exploited labourers could be put to work manufacturing massive amounts of weapons, which, if China's history of overpoweringly capitalist internation trade policies is any indiction, they would sell to all those involved. So if any nation on the globe today is going to play an overt part in starting the next World War, look no further than China (although considering how much of a crony the U.S. is to China, I wouldn't place it outside the realm of possibility for the U.S. to play a big part too).
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Not a war that would damage the continental US. The virtue of WWII was that the US itself was invulnerable - there was no way either Germans or Japanese could even think of attacking the 48 states. So you could get all the market advantage of desperate customers fighting for their lives without putting your factories at risk. If you were mad enough to want to do this today, you would choose some middle weight country a long way away - say in the Middle East - with some nasty, Hitler-like dictator to give a cause for war. Maritime access and/or a friendly country next door to freight in and blow up all that expensive equipment you are going get paid for would help. Not that anybody would do such a thing, of course.
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Let me explain this to you. War=big manufacturing boom. US=No have big manufacturing ability anymore. China=Do have manufacturing. The sum of these points:No
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