People have been making these kinds of excuses about trading autonomy for short-term profits for at least a century.[0] At the end of the day all that matters

People have been making these kinds of excuses about trading autonomy for short-term profits for at least a century.[0] At the end of the day all that matters is that a nation is self-sufficient in the essentials and participates in the global economy that augment that self-sufficiency without damaging it. Anything else is hubris because you're just doomed to repeat history, and it's outright greed because the people making the decisions aren't the ones going to bear the brunt when they inevitably fail. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS74746206720140627 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS74746206720140627