I think something interesting going on. There’s a faction that thinks it is pro-trade but against the international rules based order, and wants a condition of Hobbesian bilateralism where there are no stable arrangements and some sort of mercantilist zero-sum realpolitik.
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This faction seems to have 2 broad strategic goals: cut down what they see as China’s unfair maneuvering and weaken what they see as bureaucratic intermediary multilateral orgs especially Europe-based.
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What they miss is that the global economy isn’t a random trade network with lots of choice of trading partners for everything but an organic structure with players cast in very specific roles carved out by historic and geographic contingency, plus cultural affinities.
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Replying to @EvanBThomas @Aelkus
Not sure what you mean by that... the metis?
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Yep, good tack for critique of an ahistorical libertarianism in global affairs. There’s a weird kind of “nationalist libertarian” economic posture around where you try to apply libertarian ideas that are shaky even at individualist level to large global societies of nations.
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