>>take into consideration global trade and future mishaps and not just do lip service like "never again". Yes, and the way we have to take it into account incl

>>take into consideration global trade and future mishaps and not just do lip service like "never again". Yes, and the way we have to take it into account includes * Recognizing that the grand and noble experiment has been done. We tested the great idea that trade and engagement with autocracies would lead to freedom and democracy for their subjects. that experiment as been a resounding FAILURE. We proved the opposite - trade and exchange with autocracies leads only to stronger autocracies. * Trade with China was a strategic blunder of historic proportions. While the West thought we were exploiting their cheap labor, CCP was exploiting our myopic focus on quarterly profits and gaining strategic technology, chokeholds on strategic supply chains, and the ability to insert corrupted tech into our supply chain. While Europe thought they were exploiting plentiful Russian NatGas to boost their economy, Russia was exploiting our myopia to gain a coercive hold on democratic governments — and so this minute, the necessary purchase of gas to heat German homes directly pays for the bombs and bullets used to kill Ukrainian civilians and children. * The arc of history has now been largely stripped of the 19th-20th century ideologies; these merely obscured the fact that the real battle is autocrats and people who want to live in self-determining liberal democracies. Now, it is clearly and deeply true that you are either helping liberal democracies, or helping autocracy. This is now really World War III, only hot in a few spots, but the question is whether democracy can survive, or we will all live under one or another autocracy. The only choice is to as rapidly as possible disengage and cut off all autocracies from all economic engagement. Yes, this will really suck for the subjects of those autocracies. Their only hope of democracy will be to escape or overthrow their govt, and for prosperity, well,the history of autocracies for long-term prosperity is not good. If we fail to rapidly cut these ties that empower autocracies, we will all soon be subjects of autocracy. Better to die standing and fighting for freedom than to live on your knees.