Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "What if America Never Exported its Industry?" video.
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The USA has created many rival superpowers over its short period of history.
Before WW2, only Germany and America dominated the global machine tools market. Nobody else was able to compete, not even the British and French Empires. After America bombed its economic competitor out of the market (Germany), the USA basically gave up tremendous amounts of industrial wealth to the USSR with lend lease from WW2, and allowing the Soviets to seize the other half of German talent and industry. Even before the end of WW2, many American patents, engineering blueprints etc. made its way to the USSR. The Russians still use American Christie suspensions, caterpillar tracks, mechanized American standard grain agriculture, American designed jet engines.
As for Asia, America basically gave up its domestic electronics industry to Japan and South Korea in the 60s and 70s. Thus, making those Asian countries wealthy. Next came China from the 1980s to the 2010s; America created another economic/military superpower! We gave up entire steel mills, refineries, chemical plants, foundry works, assembly plants and manufacturing to China.
Talk about being Uncle Sucker who pays up to everyone but the interests of the American people!
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