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> If we could snap our fingers and domestically produce most or all of our own products, would you not prefer that? I'm not the person you asked, but I would d
by coldpie 2y ago
> If we could snap our fingers and domestically produce most or all of our own products, would you not prefer that?
I'm not the person you asked, but I would definitely not prefer that. Trade & economic dependencies prevent wars. Wars are really, really bad things.
- giantg2 2y agoEconomic dependencies also start wars. Even if trade exists, sometimes they don't like the terms.
- _heimdall 2y agoWe've had plenty of wars since globalization came in post-WWII though. Its impossible to know what wars would have happened without it, and how much war may have been prevented due to trade rather than the threat of nuclear war, for example.
- aaronbaugher 2y agoThose were good wars, though, apparently, since they bolstered US dominance and the spread of a certain flavor of "liberal democracy" based on progressive politics and consumerism. I could have sworn they were bad wars when they were happening ("No blood for oil"?), but opinions on that seem to have shifted all of a sudden for some reason.
- p_j_w 2y agoI don’t think very many people have flip flopped to “actually the war in Iraq was good.” How many examples of this can you point to?