Why would it be a disaster? Because the rest of the world has zealously outsourced manufacturing capacity to a population it saw as captured and incapable of revolt. Christ, is there another instance in which western capitalists outsourced technology and industrial capacity to a country they’d assumed had been cowed in prior decades, only to have that nation rapidly militarize and dominate a continent?
glances at Fascist Germany and, subsequently, Soviet Russia. And Saudi Arabia and Iraq, for that matter.
Western governments are currently scrambling to move industrial capacity from China to India. But India’s already in the fascist pipeline (and increasingly hostile to China/Pakistan, for that matter). How long till we have another World War between powers westerners juiced up with industrialization?
