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You're in luck, globalization is already ending thanks to the American general disinterest in patrolling global shipping lanes + the shale revolution.

• pjmlp 2y ago
  Of course, one thing leads to the other.
• ein0p 2y ago
  > general disinterest I think you meant to use the word “inability”.
  • Sabinus 2y ago
    The US 'could' waste trillions waging war against the Houthis in their mountain hideouts. Or they could just let Europe-Asia trade get more expensive.
  • 39896880 2y ago
    The US has the most powerful navy in the world as measured by tonnage and it’s not even close [0]. What it doesn’t have, and hasn’t had for about 20 years, is a foreign policy. The US is simply disinterested in policing the world’s shipping lanes because the US is a net oil exporter and will be for the next 100 years. Globalization brought cheap goods but stagnating wages. With the oil problem solved, the US is far more apt to build up local and regional capabilities. [0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/largest-navies-in-the-world https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/largest-n...
    • ein0p 2y ago
      And yet it ran from the Houthis and failed to reopen the shipping lanes