> It is difficult to decimate another country when all of your aluminum, cars, wheat or salt were coming from that country. Conversely if the supplier of salt

> It is difficult to decimate another country when all of your aluminum, cars, wheat or salt were coming from that country. Conversely if the supplier of salt and aluminium has a government that is acting in an immoral or oppressive way, then the dependence of other nations upon that supplier would seem to reduce the likelihood and magnitude of coercive action that might be taken by those nations.