Comment by hajile
The world is the most unstable it has been in decades. If/when a war kicks off, you have to have your supply chain local because the oceans will be instantly impassable until we can work out how to counter submarines.
This has little to do with welfare and everything to do with national security.
Uh, having entrenched trade relationships across oceans dramatically reduces the chance of war. Trump launched the tariffs to reduce "dependency" on China because it was the "dependency" that held back the typical rhetoric that leads to war.