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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomeday, someday soon, we'll implement an economic boycott of the BRICS...
and belatedly realize that we just slapped a boycott on ourselves.
Warpy
(111,406 posts)and it's become a national security issue. For instance, we no longer make cloth or shoes or many car parts or computer innards. All this stuff wears out or breaks down with use. None of it can be repaired or replaced with domestic parts.
Even a halfhearted blockade of trade to the US will cripple us. We don't need a shooting war. WWIII will most likely be a trade war with targeted sanctions.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)are made in China. There is some suspicion that hardware Trojan horses have been planted.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Warpy
(111,406 posts)However, one running shoe company can't supply the footwear needs of the whole country.
We'll all be wearing old car tires made into sandals in very little time.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Brazil, India, Russia, China--only one we're missing is South Africa, otherwise Snowden has been sheltered (or tried to be) at some point by them all. Glenn Greenwald and his husband--chief enabler--Brazil. Snowden's material driving a wedge between Merkel (EU) and the US, driving a wedge between the American left and Obama, demanding that we kill the NSA's abilities. It just seems so obvious sometimes.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)As it runs counter the two main camps here, I keep my mouth shut.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)he is now. Too much coincidence. And he isn't a spy for a country, maybe, but getting paid to spy for an organization who must now shelter him. And Greenwald, an expat with ties to leftie publications in America and UK, is always trying to convince liberals and Paulies in the US to neuter both the NSA and the Pentagon's reach. Why would an expat give a shit about American constitutional rights to privacy? And why is he paired up with Ebay man Omidyar, who has a hand in the Ukraine revolution apparently?
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)The surface story, pro and con, had too many questions for my taste.