> The graphs may show economic advantage. It’s hard to quantify the long term strategic and militaristic disadvantage to not being able to make anything yoursel

> The graphs may show economic advantage. It’s hard to quantify the long term strategic and militaristic disadvantage to not being able to make anything yourself if a world war occurs. Is the United States at risk of not being able to make anything ourselves? We have the second largest manufacturing output in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing#List_of_countries_by_manufacturing_output https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing#List_of_countrie...