no idiot

america IS autarky right now

cope

because there are resources that america does not have

but needs

they have huge untapped land for practically everything

did not say you should never trade

first of all

there is no self relience

what i said you should not be dependent on trade

america gets various resources from foreign ports because it's simpler or cheaper w/e

for developing

you cant not be dependent

its impossible

but it doesn't mean they can't get it themselves

right now the US economy only has liek 8% foreign trade

north korea moment

and half of that is with mexico and canada

just look at happened in US after oil crisis, they bascially increased their oil production few times so now they import little oil

and became biggest oil producer in the world

the US was the biggest producer in the 40s

russia is biggest oil produces

if america wants, it can be 100% nodependent on imports

rn

false

bruh

US now has so much gas they are using it for stuff you usually would use oil for

minecraft economics

eurasians cope

saudis supposedly overinflate their reserves by 1/3 so that will be funny

Autarky is hard to do if you want a serious industrial economy. You're going to have to look beyond your own borders and secure access

well that is why you eliminate little nations

and develop greater states

Otherwise idk you could try to stockpile but that could be pricey and mean you'd need to export a lot in peace time

small nations have their uses

It'd be feasable to export enough to buy up a shitload of Cobalt for example

Easy to store things

most important thing to understand bout autarky is that isn't always most profitable option, that is why for example outsourcing is still a thing

BUT that doesn't change the fact that US or Russia could be 100% autarkic if they wanted to

autarky does not necesserally mean