December 7, 2025
Is There a ‘Sleeping Giant’ to Awaken As China Builds for War?
By Richard Blakley, D. Padgett Blakley
On December 7, 1941, the United States officially entered WWII with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan struck Pearl Harbor with six aircraft carriers and an accompanying fleet, which resulted in 3,581 Americans being either killed or wounded, with numerous military aircraft, ships, and facilities either damaged or destroyed in less than two hours. Afterwards, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto reportedly wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
With the great American industrial foundation powered by an extensive energy base, 1941-America was indeed a sleeping giant awakened. The U.S. spent the next four years relentlessly becoming a war machine with one united purpose, to defeat the Axis powers.
Today America’s great industrial base is skeletal at best. While President Trump is trying to rectify the situation, too many American globalist politicians have lined their pockets through encouraging American companies to invest in foreign nations instead of America. In 1945, the U.S. produced 67% of the world’s pig iron and 72% of the steel. By 2014 the U.S. was only producing 2.4% of the pig iron and 5.3% of the world’s steel. In contrast, by 2021 the Chinese company China Baowu became the world’s top steel producer.
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