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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
This conflict is showing me the flipside of that approach. They become dependent on your trade. But you also become dependent on their trade.
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That's a fair point. To me it's not really a question of geopolitical strategy at all, but just one of inevitability. If no one country can produce everything it needs and purchase everything it produces - and IMO that's a truism - then at a certain level it just doesn't matter if global trade is a good idea or a bad idea, any more than one might question whether gravity is a good or bad thing. It just *is*.