The article mentions that it could take some time for mining to pick up again. Now how would feel about this if we'd outsourced all of our farming to one parti

The article mentions that it could take some time for mining to pick up again. Now how would feel about this if we'd outsourced all of our farming to one particular country and that country suddenly decided not to sell us any? Or if a sizable number of them got together to impose an embargo on us? Naturally, this sort of thing is just not meritocratic and leads to higher prices for everyone, but you'd be a talking head if you didn't recognize the limitations to our most cherished ideologies.