Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost'
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At modern scale you might have a point, but international shipping has been a thing since the 15th century.
Dependence not just commerce. Commerce is fine.
But we import just about everything except food. It's good that we do export food, everyone needs that. It's bad that we crippled our domestic manufacturing capabilities and handed it over to the Red Chinese. Or to Taiwan, same difference these days.
Fragile supply lines are stupid. Self reliance is not.
One of the biggest ironies is that despite generally having more advanced and better quality tech at the beginning of WW2, as well as incredibly effective military organization, Germany lost due to simply being overwhelmed with Soviet numbers and American manufacturing capacity. Yet here we are now with a military that has the most advanced tech and largely has the best training, yet our manufacturing capacity is crap and we've outsourced so much of our economy to our biggest rival.
How did our government forget the lesson of WW2 within a generation?
How? Oh that's easy.
It was deliberate. We didn't actually win the Cold War, ideologically speaking. We failed to rid ourselves of the enemy within. And they're still stabbing us even now.