• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

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      9 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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        9 months ago

        They linked a Wikipedia article for a whole book. We can read the summary section, but presumably it would be better to have read the whole book.

        Wouldn’t a comment where they mention what applies in this specific situation make more sense than just a link for a book with a title that’s meant to rile people up?

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          9 months ago

          Those that have read it would know there’s a whole section on the US’ protection of world trade and what could happen if it stopped.

          Those that have read it would know exactly what it meant to link that book in a thread like this one.