Economics

1. Autarky is bad. Most people haven't heard the term before because we got rid of it through decades of international economic forums. The USSR was an autarky.

2. Using this "instrument" will slow trading volumes so much it will crash all markets.

3. All economists agree tit-for-tat tariffs is a winning strategy.

Totally agree. What do you think about our trade education decline?

Feels like the country has shifted to liberal arts degrees over engineering or agriculture ones.

I think implementing targeted protectionist trade policy to support certain domestic manufacturing priorities could be a long term win. But this is autarky via kakistocracy.

Being "self-sufficient" in our economy means you are going to buy a lot less. Which means our GDP goes down. Our export trade goes down. Which means you need more dollars to buy the same thing outside our manufacture. We get chips from Taiwan. Now we can only buy from Arizona. They are also 10x more expensive.

See?

Everyone. We can't even trade with our neighbors. We will end up reducing total productivity everywhere and we move to more inefficient trade scenarios/mixes.

e.g. We export fewer apples and don't see more win, points A to D.

I agree with your points AND I also kind of feel our current society is geared to overconsumption (which is also bad).