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Might be time to check with history and see how fascist governments have historically sought resources to boost their domestic economy...

• notepad0x90 9mo ago
  They didn't outsource manufacturing, rely on foreign parties for critical tech, and rely on immigrants (legal or not) for both skilled and unskilled labor. They didn't have instant comms and globalized commerce either. Only tangentially related, the Nazis started the holocaust, in part, as a way to boost their domestic economy while making invasion supply chains viable. Less people to fight over resources, they were removing demand because of supply shortages, in literally the worst way possible.
  • marcosdumay 9mo ago
    > They didn't outsource manufacturing, rely on foreign parties for critical tech, and rely on immigrants (legal or not) for both skilled and unskilled labor. Outsourcing manufacturing is new. But you are wrong about the other two. Why do you think fascists (and proto-fascists and the unrelated look-alikes) keep losing wars all through history?
    • notepad0x90 9mo ago
      Fascism as a term started getting used with Mussolini from what I recall. Italy back then did not depend much on foreign supply chain or immigrant labor as far as I know, am I mistaken, or are there other examples you're thinking of.
      • marcosdumay 9mo ago
        Germany did enough for it to matter¹, Spain did. Everything in Japan was imported when they started warmongering around². Italy was in an exception situation at the beginning of WWII, where they couldn't afford external goods. 1 - Mainly because they pushed their definition of "hated foreigner" to an extreme. 2 - They made a huge movement into replacing production chains, mandated by the government at the beginning of the war. But their lack of access to tech was still crippling at the end of the war.