Certain varieties of tea, coffee, and kiwi fruit do not seem to grow well here. The kiwi grown here just does not taste as good, for example.
If USA citizens want to spend their money on that type of stuff, who are we to stop citizens from paying people to ship it here? Ships have been sailing the oceans for thousands of years for trade, well before the Globalist movement.
Why did the DoD get an exemption for F15s to use natural earth magnets from China, for example?
” Why did the DoD get an exemption for F15s to use natural earth magnets from China, for example? “
Because this current Regime is so decayed that they refuse domestic mines for critical materials, while attempting to implement a Global Military Empire against the suppliers of those materials.
The ideal that North America should operate a global navy to keep trade lanes open for the purpose of importing decadent “luxury” foods like Civet coffee has to be the epitome of Elite Insanity, and misallocation of resources.