NPR talked of this concept this morning and it really does have merit: companies that trade together to the point of becoming interdependent are less likely to go to war with each other.
In principle that can work, but there are other factors in play.
That is a fallacy, Britain and Germany were trading partners in the 1930’s. Japan and America were big trading partners too. Britain also had a huge investment in China and Hong Kong, people just get tired of being dominated and treated like lackeys which is what happens when one side is more powerful than the other.
>>NPR talked of this concept this morning and it really does have merit: companies that trade together to the point of becoming interdependent are less likely to go to war with each other.
This is neoconservative dogma. The idea is not without merit, but it does not seem to be true in general.
That is BS.
The intellectuals thought that in 1914, too.
A British company held the patent on the artillery fuse used by the Germans during WWI and made money on every shell fired on British troops. War is a big profit maker for globalist companies. This is not globalism’s first rodeo.