Same ridiculous position this country has taken on trade and international policy, especially the Executive Branch, for 6 decades now, really has put us where we are.
The excuses USED TO BE ABOUT building up 'allies' economically, FIGHTING COMMUNISM, AND PRETEXTS LIKE SECURITY, DIPLOMATIC FAVORS, MILITARY BASES, NUCLEAR STRATEGY, ETC.
Now, it is just 'human rights', 'democratization', and Cobdenism generally, in 3rd and 2nd world countries, as a 'carrot' for opening US market to low wage labor.
The stick has been to close, or reduce mostly unilateral access to US market. (That's what has passed for 'free trade', were it an ideal in the first place.)
How many more raw foreign carrots can the US population eat, decade in decade out?
Terms search, many terms, even the last post, say, Donald Duck.
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