• zephyreks@programming.dev
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      The globalization of the economy has been the single greatest contributor to world peace since the second world war.

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          The US has shown that they’re willing to weaponize their position in the West to block development of technology by key rivals like Russia, China, and India. The dependence that these powers had on Western technology is a key motivator against war… But today? If the US can unilaterally restrict access anyway, what’s the motivation?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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            Wars are very costly, and wars between nuclear superpowers would be world ending. US and USSR had no trade to speak of and didn’t go to war for these reasons.