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Originally Posted by willravel
Isolationism = dependence on ones self. That would benifit the US in more ways than I can imagine.
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I don't necessarily follow. I mean self-dependence is obviously an important component of isolationism, but you can be self-dependent and yet also involve yourself liberally in foreign affairs to the point where it would be impossible to call yourself isolationsist.
All else equal, I would agree, self-dependence would be great. However, the question is that given the current situation, could we become self-dependent without a significant degradation of our quality of life, and would that degradation be worth the benefits of self-dependence.