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No surprise there. "When goods don't cross borders, armies will."
by zozbot123 8y ago
No surprise there. "When goods don't cross borders, armies will."
- rossdavidh 8y agoI've heard that, but there are a lot of counter-examples. The colonial wars in China and elsewhere happened in order to force China to participate in trade. Plenty of cases of the U.S.A. invading either to make sure their banks got reimbursed, or to prevent Europe from doing the same. Plenty of other examples one could give, but the chart on this article (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-the-world-looks-a-bit-like-it-did-before-world-war-i https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-the-world-looks-a...) may do. Free trade hit a peak in 1913, the highest it had perhaps ever been. The period that followed was not exactly peaceful.