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To: 1rudeboy
Hop on board, everyone! Let's take the logic trail to the strawman!

Soviet Union had free trade right up to the day the Nazi's invaded in 1941. Actually train shipments of raw materials from the USSR to Germany continued for days after the invasion because business is business. Then Stalin woke up from a drunken stupor and canceled trade after he realized the Nazi's were actually invading.

90 posted on 07/29/2012 5:07:31 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Indeed. Free trade is completely separate from a free market. Both Nazi Germany and the USSR were non-market economies that practiced free trade with each other. Non-market economies are mercantilist at their core though, and if allowed free trade with a free market will strip that market bare.


92 posted on 07/29/2012 7:09:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: central_va

So, while we are on the “logic trail,” tariffs would have prevented World War II?


93 posted on 07/29/2012 7:17:52 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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