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The Cost of Shipping Has Dropped So Much That We Put Everything on the Waves
The cost of shipping before the Cold War and globalization was about an order of magnitude more than it was previous. Now we don't need to have the US Navy protect shipping routes for some other country because why should we? It's not going to do anything for us. We're siving the world up into different supply systems. And that is a recipe for 1910s and 1930s style conflict and competition.