BREAKING: Pentagon approaches GM, Ford and other large auto manufacturers to discuss shifting from auto development to weapons and military supply production.
— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) April 16, 2026
History is starting to rhyme.
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12 responses to “And So It Starts”
Douglas is one of us, I take his words seriously
Well, based upon the quality of current Ford and GM vehicles, if the pentagram is pushing potential DPA on the big 2, then we’ve already lost the war. At least the USPS will be kept busy delivering recall notices to Mr. Pete Hegseth, C/O Dept of War.
Yeah–well good luck with this gambit. The days of turning out a 1 B24 per hour from a Ford production line is long gone. Let’s look at the availability of production ‘tool makers’ in the USA versus China. In China you could fill two Olympic sized stadiums with tool makers in that country. In the USA, you’d be luck to fill a large meeting room in an off-strip, Las Vegas resort. So what is Ford and GM going to crank out? More irrelevant tanks and APC’s? You go to war these days and it’s missiles and remote weapons–that you have in inventory. And in a full-scale war situation like WWII–this stuff would be spent in less than a month… then it bayonet charges. Look at the expenditures alone against Iran–now imagine this against Russia and China at the same time. Imagine the sheer loss of material, ships, aircraft and people in the ground to tactical nuclear weapons. And if you want to go to war–who’s going to come? Do you really think a draft would work? You’re dreaming. Do you really think men will line up 100 deep to join the Marines like they did after Pearl Harbor? Not going to happen. And especially if it is the USA perceived to start the conflict as we did with Iran. Yeah–you read that right. So what are we going to do–waste money on more weapons that don’t work? (like the THAD and Patriot systems). Build more surface targets? (ships). And when Russia and China spends 1 dollar for every 9 we spend–who’s going to bankrupt who this time?
You summed it up very well Buck. America is like a tough old man with an undiagnosed heart problem and brittle bones who thinks he can still jump in a MMA ring and beat a fit kid. The military and the US as a whole are very brittle at this stage and Trump, who knows nothing about these realities is going to break and bring down everything if he is not stopped. Though another War Powers vote failed yesterday, he is certainly going to be removed before his term is over when the chickens come home to roost from this energy crisis. If he commits to more fighting and there is a serious American defeat that he cannot hide, enough people will turn on him to force his removal before the midterms.
The fleet of new USPS vehicles suffer from reliability faults that could impede said recall notices.
Touché. I like the way you think.
This is a sign-post on the road. Like when the Nat’l Guard troops got called to active duty, then shipped over to the sandbox. When ALL the tankers took off for the MidEast, that was a sign, too.
They WILL have their war. You and me? We’re just fleas.
Impeach them all!!!!
I thought all those plants were in Mexico now.
When you look at how many vehicles produced by the “Big Three” are sitting idle in lots across the length and breadth of AINO, this makes perfect sense. Automakers are hanging by a thread. So, let’s get Uncle Sugar to bankroll a new HUMVEE, APC, or other POS “military vehicle.”
This scam is not new. In the early 1970’s, when Chrysler was on the ropes due to garbage cars which no one was buying, Uncle Sugar showed up with requests for a new tank-the Abrams. And voila` the UAW and the shareholders were saved. During my Army Reserve time in the early 1980’s, I saw some units were equipped with camo-painted GMC diesel Blazers, an “off the shelf economic solution” which lasted about as long as a block of ice on a hot stove.
The big rusty Ferris Wheel which epitomizes the FEDGOV will continue to slowly creak and turn until our Weimar collapse. And as bad as that will be, it will surely give pause to further overseas adventures at the request of (((Wall Street))). Bleib ubrig.
Those were called CUTVees. Don’t really remember why. They ended up being used mostly as company 1st Sgt’s personal vehicle for running administrative errands around post or out to field training and back. Every one I ever rode in was beat hard and barely running.
It was CUCV. CUCV stands for Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle if I’m not mistaken.
Right you are. Forgot there was the ambulance model too. I have been saying it wrong for 45 years.