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The Dark Possibility Is the Inability to Trade
If goods don't cross borders, then bombs will. This is basically how World War II happened. If people trade with one another, they have an incentive for each other's well-being and then they have less of an incentive to fight. Russia seems to have done that by fixing the price of gold in rubles. But I also don't think gold is going to cut it in the 21st century.