No man, or village is an island. That doesn't mean that you should blindly enslave yourself to reliance on things beyond your control, when you can help it. Yo

No man, or village is an island. That doesn't mean that you should blindly enslave yourself to reliance on things beyond your control, when you can help it. You tell me, how well has, say, reliance on foreign fossil fuels worked out for Germany last year? What if the winter were a few degrees colder? Or in the US, during the oil shocks? How well is Russia's reliance on trade with the rest of the world, and the decline of its industrial base working out for it?