It could have adopted the mercantilism of its progenitor, but even that was not needed much here, whereas it had been essential for Britain and Holland, as small island or coastal empires, to dominate by advanced industrial development and trade, while for other larger European land powers, to make use of landed assets like those of America, had been an alternative avenue to empire, in some cases, like Russia, with relatively little large scale foreign trade.
Isolation here was always ideologically somewhat attractive, but contrary to other universalizing founding ideologies. So, those founding contradictions have born strange fruit.
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