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Trading with your adversaries is a good way to not start a war.

• jeswin 3y ago
  A $250b/year trade deficit will weaken you over time while you might just be kicking the can down the road. The generation having to fight the war will have lesser chances of winning it. Trade (especially massively imbalanced trade) with a communist dictatorship is not a good idea.
  • drekk 3y ago
    “The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
• dkarl 3y ago
  It can cut both ways, though. If your primary source for a crucial resource is a country that could potentially benefit from harming you, that can be strategically intolerable and eventually lead to finding an excuse to start a war.