nostr:npub16nefft85cck8cxq9jg55kft9636j04nzct4zz38asc4wg73hdfzqmethh0 We will never catch up. For one thing the US was deindusterialized starting with Jimmy Carter. The idea was that the US bankers would destroy the US and move their operation to China. Unfortunately, Xi came to power and threw the debt based bankers out and now they have no place to jump.

The other is that the US MIC is a fraud hustle that produced crap at outrageous prices par ot which they use to buy off congress to keep the scam going.

The Russia MIC is state owned - very cheap