In a bar tryna talk about the 80s and the decline of American manufacturing
And I\u2019m 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 \u201cnonaligned\u201d nations would congeal based on providing raw natural resources, and the US needed to make concessions to keep the \u201cfirst world\u201d bloc it led together
And this guy\u2019s 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\u2019m trying to give him that look where you tilt your head until they realize what they\u2019re saying, like \u201coh, totally, the problem wasn\u2019t nonaligned countries banding together to control resource flows, it was OPEC\u201d but I don\u2019t think it worked
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