Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The US Military's Semiconductor Buying Problem" video.

  1. The European Coal and Steel Community, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community, was founded in the years after WWII, and formally established in 1951. It made the economies of Germany and France dependent upon each other. The aim was to put an end to the thousand-year-old Battle of the North European Plain, of which the 1914-1945 dust-up was the latest chapter. It seems to me the Pacific could use the same idea. The sooner the United States is dependent upon East Asian electronics and the Chinese upon American soybeans, the safer the rest of us will all be. (Note that I've left Japan out of the soybean dependence. Japan depended upon the United States for soybeans, in those days used mainly for tofu, not for fattening beef and pork. Then in 1972, Kissinger threw a hissy-fit over some Japanese political move and mumbled about cutting off their supply. Mitsubishi Shoji founded the Brazilian soybean industry that very afternoon. These things matter.)
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