Most countries have lacked the capability to manufacture basic infrastructure for ages. It may look scary to you now, but it has been looking scary for decades to some.

Face it, we depend on a global economy. Every now and then something changes, and we adapt.

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datavirtue 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The only reason the US can build infrastructure is because we can print our own money.

	▲	PKop 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And that begs the question, why can we print our own money and others can't? Which leads to conclusions that there are other factors that lead to us being able to do things others can't do.