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  You can't outsource all of our labour to Mexico from China, you dry up an educated class of skilled labour in countless areas domestically.
  Example. South Carolina wanted to build a nuclear plant, but it failed, partially because there wasn't enough of a skilled workforce available. They had to outsource labour from South Korea.
context: I’m open to flying without wings, but it isn’t going to happen. >
  
  It definitely can happen if Saudi Arabia completely lost hope in the west led by the US.
  Yes its difficult to replace the dollar with the Yuan or the Ruble, but its possible to replace the dollar with a currency basket. Actually, it might benefit Saudi Arabia more financially than the dollar, but we (Saudis) will lose the American favor, which is still worth something even though its not what it used to be. >
  
  You know people love to moralize about how the US or the West should stand up to the Saudis, it’s almost always comically misguided, betraying a total lack of understanding of just how pivotal KSA is in the current world order. Certainly Saudi Arabia has a lot of power and influence. 
  But. The US could reach out and crush them. It would take a lot of provocation, a real attack on the bottom line, like say… undermining the US as the world’s reserve currency. >
  
  Let’s not forget SA funded 9/11, shall we? Get along as long as we have to. Renewables can’t come soon enough. >
  
  According to the committee on 9/11 and the FBI, the Saudi government had nothing to do with it.
  According to logic, its illogical that the government of Saudi Arabia while still being a little weak in 2001 would provoke and attack its protector state (the US).
  According to real life, Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda hate the guts of the Saudi government, one of the main goals of Al-Qaeda was to remove the Saudi monarchy because it allowed US troops and American military base in Saudi Arabia. Something very Haram in Osama's mind.
  According to nationality, Osama bin laden was banished from Saudi Arabia and stripped of his nationality in the 90s, years before 9/11 and he resided in Afghanistan at the time, later moved to Pakistan.
  According to Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is the more probable one, the US blames Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda claimed the Attack, how the fuck did Saudi Arabia turn out to be the preparators. >
  
  So much for our "ally". >
  
  They were never our ally. They're our drug dealer. I dream of the day that alternative energy sources will be viable and widely distributed enough that the world can tell Saudi Arabia to go pound sand. >
  
  I fear WMDs will "found" there soon. >
  
  About 10 years late for that joke. >
  
  stupid trick that works is not stupid. >
  
  Is that you Confucius? >
  
  What a good idea. Just in time for thirty percent or more of the US to not be able to buy a combustion engine car. Twelve years. The world is going to change faster than we think. The Kingdom can figure out somewhere else to sell the only thing they have of any value. 
  Time to go back to being beduins. >
  
  Brics. Fiat currency is under attack. >
  
  The Saudi's signed a military cooperation agreement with Russia on August 24 2021, and have expressed interest in joining the BRICs, so good-bye US petro dollar, and worlds reserve currency. >
  
  The simple truth, there is nowhere in the world better to park your money than the US. Geography, mineral deposits, farming. natural resources, talent etc. makes the US the home to retirement investments the world over. Oil is just one of the many legs of the US currency. 
  And Bric well they have talking about Bric for over 20 years now. Still it hasn't really produced much of anything beneficial for anyone. Maybe the next 20 years will be different but it's off to a bad start. Brazil is dependent on Russian fertilizers. The war in Ukraine has been slowly choking that output. India and China are also trying to put each other in checkmate. It's a little hard to progress when you are competing against each other and dragging others down with you. >
  
  I don't know, The US and China had plenty of disagreements for decades and worked intimately together economically.
  The US is owned by international corporations, that fight over world policy, they don't come up with coherent national strategy.
  Brics is an attempt to compete and move away from that sphere. Even if BRICS members don't all get along.
  America dominating the world economy for decades, won't look the same if most of your labour and manufacturing turns their back on your currency at the same time.
  It would be like factory workers going on strike, but the newspaper says don't worry, the factory owner has lots of resources and is rich.
  The US needs to invest more in bringing manufacturing home and educating a skilled labour force. This would insulate the American economy from external losses.
  But that's not the internationalist's plan, I don't think. For the government to have tyrannical control, the people have to be more desperate. >
  
  "The US needs to invest more in bringing manufacturing home and educating
   a skilled labour force. This would insulate the American economy from 
  external losses."
  That is kinda the whole point of NAFTA. Engineering/some assembly in the US and manufacturing in Mexico. And it's working and growing. 
  Beyond all of that the US enabled China in attempt to make something like a larger Japan 2.0. Look back to the China's entry into the WTO for more info on that. Didn't work out. So since the carrot didn't work out the US is no longer enabling China. (no chips and no trade protected shipping routes by the US navy)
  Now the world is de-globalizing. It'll mean marginally less for the US and some opportunities created elsewhere in the world but ultimately a lot less for everyone else.