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user-inactivated  ·  3273 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Not Isolationism? Plz ELI5

    But I don't understand why foreign trade is necessary to the continued health and wellbeing of the people living in the enormous, resource-rich, barely occupied landmass known as the USA.

Then look at facts. Google our imports list and cross-check the first few dozen goods on it with a list of items produced within the 50 states. Run the math, figure out what we would have to do without if we cut off all foreign trade.

Don't make someone else do legwork you are fully capable of doing yourself. That said, I'll shove you in the right direction: how many cups of coffee did you drink this week?