>>508143680It's the unspoken open secret of realist politics.
You see Trump himself trying to follow this playbook but he is mired by the powerful complex conflicting interests that have massive influence over the US political body.
You are right that US and Canada need to change their economic course to becoming more self-reliant, the problem is how, and how long it will take.
Using China as an example, as quickly as they managed it, it still took them 50-100 years of austerity and hardship to achieve. And they had the benefit of (still) having near complete authoritarian control of their population (restrictions on amount of money that can leave the country, restrictions on people that can leave the country, police state that quashes dissent).
Even though the US is starting seemingly ahead, the problem is that when they start their decoupling process like they're doing now, they will lack the level of control on their population that China has. The cost-of-living will skyrocket, meaning potential civil unrest. First problem is the poor will riot and loot en masse, requiring some form of solution, and so far we've only seen crackdowns by the police as a solution. But expansion of social programs is probably the only nonviolent way.
To get an idea of how much look at
cost-of-living will need to go up, look at how much Destin's BBQ scrubber costs:
>https://www.jjgeorgestore.com/the-smarter-scrubber/Secondly, you also have the problem of rich flight. China has control of their rich and rich companies, the US' will have to find some other way to convince/force corporations to manufacture at loss in the US for several decades.
And of course, it's not a matter of US-Canada isolationism as that just speedruns your own collapse. What you need to do is diversify your trade. Problem is, diversifying from China means you need to position yourself closer to Russia and India, as well as wrest complete control of middle eastern resources which is why US is propping up Isr