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It's a bad idea to depend on the outside for energy and resources in general. Not just on warmongering criminal dictators. Buying US gas for a fortune is far fr
by Al-Khwarizmi 4y ago
It's a bad idea to depend on the outside for energy and resources in general. Not just on warmongering criminal dictators. Buying US gas for a fortune is far from ideal, for example. Not blaming anyone, obviously any country will look after themselves first. If resource scarcity starts hitting hard, we won't be able to expect external countries to just send us resources as if nothing happened, even if they are free countries and good allies.
And that's without even mentioning that who knows which countries will be free and which will be dictatorships in 20-30 years.
- wazoox 4y agoYou now that back in 1300BC tin to make bronze in Egypt or Greece was imported from far away Afghanistan? Do you know that in 10000BC people traded seashells in Siberia, thousands of km away from the ocean? It's a good idea to be as independent as possible, but no country was ever entirely self-sufficient. Not even North Korea.