This goes against the zeitgiest here, but I think it's one of the few good things in this era. This isn't a map of control, it's a map of giving the fruits of your nation away to others, or the map of importing foreign shit into your country.

Most of the US's trade in 2000 is offshoring and sending our wealth to foreign counties for cheap shit. Giving all our stuff away is how we got into a bad state here. By 2020, we already started seeing a return to onshoring. The US is currently the country with the lowest percent of their GDP in exports, not counting countries like Ethiopia who simply cannot have trade. We now have more domestic production and make more things in America, and we give less to other countries. This is good, IMO.

The Chinese work hard, extract wealth from their country, then send it to other countries so they can get fake and gay numbers on a bank account balance. That's retarded. It can buy you soft power, but we're rapidly realizing that isn't real. Physical objects and resources and production facilities are valuable, but promises of fiat are not. As Russia in 2022 proved, all of your assets in clown world can evaporate overnight. And as 2020 proved, those trade links to other countries are liabilities, not assets.

I'm not sure if you've been to other countries, but other countries are not self sufficient. There's way more 'Made in America' in America, than there is 'Made in <country>' in any foreign country. And I want there to be even more 'Made in America' here. This is a map of America turning it's attention inward, and (hopefully) cutting ties to the rest of the world in the near future, and I am happy to see it.