Comment by paganel

4 months ago

Almost everything can be seen as strategic.

That’s a rather weak retort. Certain things like uranium and pharmaceuticals are pretty obviously strategic while other things like dog food are not.

  • Milk and yogurt certainly are, also bread, also lots of food stuff. As far as I know almost no country has gone isolationist on that (with a few exceptions, such as China, which is at least trying).

    One can win a grand war without access to uranium, but you need access to bread and milk if you don’t want to repeat Germany’s WW1 fate.

    • > Milk and yogurt certainly are, also bread, also lots of food stuff.

      Which is why both US and Europe protect and subsidize those sectors to a fault.

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