the belt and road initiative is/was a means of bypassing this and our stranglehold on trade physically and through currency. investment in land and sea infrastructure to rework all existing trade routes, particularly for eurasia but diversified ports considering the places things can move by rail and truck efficiently. i'm not sold on who collapses first, and i don't think enough onshoring/nearshoring has occurred. there is a lot of things in my industry that everyone in this thread relies on that is in short supply and comes from different continents after being on a waitlist. our open borders let in all the sleeper cells that an adversary could want and it is surprising more high profile attacks have not occurred but i believe much, though not all, of our competency crisis can be attributed to sabotage.
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