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There's no contradiction in interconnected economies being both better for global stability and more volatile to global instability. On a populist level, these
by bakuninsbart 4y ago
There's no contradiction in interconnected economies being both better for global stability and more volatile to global instability. On a populist level, these kinds of questions are always presented as either-or, when in reality it is a pretty delicate balancing act. No, we shouldn't be completely reliant on potentially adversarial states for our basic well-being, but intertwined economies change the cost-benefit-analysis of a lot of adversarial geopolitical actions, and that has led to a lot less war in the world.
- baja_blast 4y agoThe USSR and United States had zero trade and never went to war. And since the fall of the USSR the number of conflicts has not gone down. Ukraine and Russia were very interconnected, but that did not prevent the invasion.
- selimthegrim 4y agoUh, we sold them grain, and they sold oil, and let’s leave aside the NEP period…
- nradov 4y agoThe United States sold huge amounts of grain to the USSR. Did this prevent a war, or make a war more likely? Who knows? https://coldwarheartland.ku.edu/documents/foes-or-friends https://coldwarheartland.ku.edu/documents/foes-or-friends
- astrange 4y agoThe USSR built their industry by hiring Americans to design more or less all of it.