It went almost unnoticed over here for decades.
We have been more or less giving this stuff, and on the ground know how, away for 6 + decades now, for that good short term profitability.
What's all the to do, now,
with a little large scale cyber theft, to boot?
Just good ole large scale private capitalism working itself toward wholesome equilibrium?
Not. Just a belated footnote to:
Term search, my paraphrase of Churchill's remark re the RAF:
' never in the history of human conflict has so much been given away, to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. '
It is easy to poo poo economic nationalism, or, say, a more modern form of mercantilism or something, nation statism, what you will, until one realizes that the alternative, in the long run, is Schumpeterian like destruction of your nation state and almost all others in the wake of some outcome or another of globalization and developmental nationalism, now coming into view.
As many people have pointed out, Wallerstein more recently and broadly, certain once great imperial centers are now semi pheripheral areas, notably Madrid Spain, Rome Italy, Athens Greece, Cairo Egypt, Istanbul Turkey, etc., etc.;
once great capitalist trading cities, Amsterdam, Genoa, Venice, Cadiz, Lisbon, Cairo, Constantinople, Baghdad, not peripheries but also not commercial empires either anymore.
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