• aew360@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You should read it. Pretty much no one understands how the current state of international affairs has been maintained by global trade. The U.S. Navy protects all global trade. Not just trade to and from the U.S., but obviously it’s not a popular domestic position and it doesn’t make much sense for the U.S. to continue anyway. There’s winners and losers, but mostly losers

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      11 months ago

      The book is about the US backing off from protecting global trade and what happens afterword. Such is the core thing holding up our current globalized trading system.

      It isn’t about everyone dying or some shit (“Doomerism”), it is about geopolitics.