meh... clothes and shoes are incredibly easy to make. Sure, it would be expensive to make them in the EU, but I'm sure I could go out of my apartment right now

meh... clothes and shoes are incredibly easy to make. Sure, it would be expensive to make them in the EU, but I'm sure I could go out of my apartment right now and find 100 people willing and able to do that within an hour. The issue with chips is, that a modern fab plant costs $1bn. You can't just make it happen, immediately. Same with food production. Technology, guns/steel, energy/oil/gas and food, those are the main "national security" industries.