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War works, but not instantaneously.
The government signs out big contracts to pay for war stuff, and starts printing money. There's enough money being printed as it is to start issuing it in 1000 sheets per roll.
Prosperity didn't come to America until a few years after the war, and it came to the US only because since we had to destroy the rest of the world's crude factories which were supplying our enemies, ours were the best to do the job. That gave people a place to work to buy the stuff. A war here would never get the cogwheels of industry turning again on our shores.
Bethlehem Steel foundries that have been dormant for 30 or more years ain't coming back.
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