“We engineers know how much our 21st century lifestyle depends on imported raw materials, not to mention manufactured products. So we support any and all efforts to stop Russia from controlling Europe, ...”
North America has all the resources it needs for self sufficiency.
What’s missing is an Elite which wants to lead towards making what we buy. And buying what we make.
Instead we have people like you.
Who want to continue a consumption economy funded by borrowing, and printing a fiat currency.
When the dollar debt pyramid and the $US collapses, North America will be destitute, because it will be dependent on imports it can no longer afford.
But no problem for the Boomers, who have been selling off the future for current consumption their entire lives.
FINISH AS YOU START !
At a 19th century level of technology, as I said. We have no aluminum ore, no cobalt, and precious little of a dozen or two other rare but critical minerals. That's just for starters.