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> moreover it's not just the US but also a problem for most Western countries. If it's not reversed soon then it'll be irreversible and the West will be fucked.
by kazen44 3y ago
> moreover it's not just the US but also a problem for most Western countries. If it's not reversed soon then it'll be irreversible and the West will be fucked. A reminder of the know-how that we've lost.
This became very apparent in europe after the start of the war in ukraine.
The west needs it's own manufacturing to keep its global significance. The short term greed of globalization has resulted in a massive geopolitical blunder.
- hilbert42 3y ago"The short term greed of globalization has resulted in a massive geopolitical blunder." Agreed, but this 'thinking' has been so ingrained as the norm since the early 1980s—the Reagan-Thatcherite era—it's almost set in concrete. Seems to me it's not going to change anytime soon, unfortunately.