In a bar tryna talk about the 80s and the decline of American manufacturing

And I’m making the point that a constraint on trade policy re:Japan was there was a real turn-of-the-80s threat that a third global trade bloc of “nonaligned” nations would congeal based on providing raw natural resources, and the US needed to make concessions to keep the “first world” bloc it led together

And this guy’s giving me shit like oh everyone knows the thing that happened in the 70s was the Arab oil embargo, what am I talking about, and I’m trying to give him that look where you tilt your head until they realize what they’re saying, like “oh, totally, the problem wasn’t nonaligned countries banding together to control resource flows, it was OPEC” but I don’t think it worked