RE THE OTHER AVALON ET IN ARCADIA EGO ALLEGORY OF UTOPIAN GLOBALIZATION

SEE prior post: THE OTHER AVALON

 

Let's analogize the systems failure on the car, between its cooling system 'systems', to globalized industry.

 

You have a an IT part made in X, other moving parts made in Y and another IT part made in Z, and the car assembled in Omega.

 

What happens when you have a little political instability here and there?

 

What about just logistical dilemmas cropping up?

 

How about a major war?

 

What if the water pump now has to come from Asia, as they usually do now originally, say either Japan or China nowadays, and China is asserting hegemony over the whole Pacific and gets into a little sticky wicket with its neighbors, especially Japan?

Guess what? The water pump itself is made of parts that come from say 3 countries, assembled in a 4th. What happens if trade goes south? Plan B?

There is no Plan B for globalized industrial outsourcing.

If you can't use WMD yourself for prudential reasons, or prevent others from doing so due to allowing proliferation, and you can't keep the sources of your conventional military equipment within your borders, then you are not a super power. The term super power was a misnomer, and then became obsolete, almost at the time that it was coined...

 

No water pumps are made in Syria, or much of anything else in the whole rest of the Middle East for that matter, so it's ok to bomb them back to the stone age without interfering with housewives here getting to the beauty parlor in their Avalon.

 

Asia, little different story...