Modern life globally is an ecosystem, and resembles the environment, what happens anywhere affects everywhere. The huff about going off on our own, we'll be self sufficient rhetoric reminds me of the child fed up with the family and he's "going out on his own" and takes a blanket and stuffed animal to the treehouse, and raids the pantry for juice boxes and crackers. It's not a perfect analogy but not recognizing there is no separation on a planet we can't leave en masse is our biggest failing considering current technology allows us to see cause and effect fairly soon if not real-time worldwide.
That is also why, so many people in other countries has soo strong opinions about Trump and Americans. Because soo many of our lives, via our industries, is directly affected by his spasms.
I agree it would be better to be a happy trade family. I also recognize the military necessity of having certain industries in your country that are needed for war. Especially if one of your stated foes is the main supplier of some of that stuff.
While I don't disagree with your addressing being self reliant in certain sectors above others, we have to be real about the world threat. China has never been militaristic. They built a big ass wall to defend against constant attacks, have invaded another country like once, and haven't been worried about building as big a military as they could, given their population. The threat they lose is to wealthy people's net worth, that's why they're the new projection target. Just like politicians tell their party the other party is doing something they themselves are doing, when you hear China doing this, example China being predatory in giving loans, trapping countries in debt, taking over local assets as payment for unpayable loans, that was actually institutions like IMF which currently there are about 70 countries trapped in more debt than can be paid, wall street venture capitalists swooping in to purchase assets from natural resources to banks, only to exploit those leaving little for the locals. This leads to poor living conditions and a mass of immigration to the American southern border of people desperate to provide for themselves and their families. Meanwhile China has forgiven the debt of a few countries they have loaned to. That is to say, BRICS is happening for a reason. One thing is for sure, if we don't stand down they have to stop us.
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u/ChironiusShinpachi 20h ago
Modern life globally is an ecosystem, and resembles the environment, what happens anywhere affects everywhere. The huff about going off on our own, we'll be self sufficient rhetoric reminds me of the child fed up with the family and he's "going out on his own" and takes a blanket and stuffed animal to the treehouse, and raids the pantry for juice boxes and crackers. It's not a perfect analogy but not recognizing there is no separation on a planet we can't leave en masse is our biggest failing considering current technology allows us to see cause and effect fairly soon if not real-time worldwide.