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::Don't laugh, seriously. [[User:Conservative]], with the owner backing him up, has spent years and years impeding other users productive editing with these vital questions. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do straight normies spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 13:28, July 22, 2026 (EDT)
::Don't laugh, seriously. [[User:Conservative]], with the owner backing him up, has spent years and years impeding other users productive editing with these vital questions. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do straight normies spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 13:28, July 22, 2026 (EDT)
*[[Simplicius]]: [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/bombshell-report-touted-futuristic Bombshell Report: Touted "Futuristic" 155mm Factory in Texas Produced Zero Shells in MIC Mega-Flop].
{{quotebox-float|A bombshell report has been published by ProPublica which has been making the rounds concerning the much-vaunted new [[General Dynamics]] factory in Mesquite, [[Texas]] which was meant to massively boost US production of critical 155mm [[artillery]] shells for [[Ukraine]] and beyond.
You’ll recall we covered this factory several times, as far back as 2024, citing a [[NYT]] piece at the time which proclaimed the plant would double US production and help reach the goal of 100k monthly shells by 2025:
:"Here, in the [[Pentagon]]’s first new major arms plant built since [[Russia]] invaded [[Ukraine]], [[Turkish]] workers in orange hard hats are busy unpacking wood crates stenciled with the name Repkon, a defense company based in [[Istanbul]], and assembling [[computer]]-controlled [[robot]]s and lathes.
:"The factory will soon turn out about 30,000 steel shells every month for the 155-millimeter [[howitzer]]s that have become crucial to [[Kyiv]]’s war effort.
First, a major spoiler: the [[US]] never reached even remotely close to their 2025 goals. A recent report from the [[Department of Defense]] [[Inspector General]] found that the US still struggles to produce a measly 36,000 rounds, which has been the ceiling for the past two years:
[https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/07/14/manufacturing-woes-hamper-us-155-mm-ammo-production/]
Recall at a time when [[Russia]] was producing upwards of 250-350k monthly shells per the West’s own estimates, pro-[[Ukrainian]] cheerleaders promised us the indomitable [[American]] [[MIC]] would easily catch up to the impoverished Russians. It turns out the US is physically incapable of course-correcting its obvious industrial decline....}}
:Of course, we can always pretend this is not happening..;
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