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> The fact that we don’t any more was a catastrophic policy decision One effect of this is that the US and China are economically interconnected. It makes war
by dehrmann 5y ago
> The fact that we don’t any more was a catastrophic policy decision
One effect of this is that the US and China are economically interconnected. It makes war a lot harder. It's why the EU is dragging its feet on oil and gas from Russia because that's the one Russian export they need.
- CPLX 5y agoYes and our supply chain is a house of cards that was bound to melt down one day because of a shock and finally did. And the industrial base of the country's interior has endured two generations of economic collapse leading to widespread misery and political upheaval. The free trade and industrial policy decisions of the 90's and early 2000's will go down in history as era-defining mistakes in this county's political history.