That’s a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.
Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.
It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.
That’s a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.
Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.
That is why tariffs make sense. If you were preparing the US for WW3 then you would do exactly what Trump is doing.
He’s stupid enough to believe that autarky is a desirable situation, without actually knowing what the word means.
It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.