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marcos@lemmy.world 8 hours agoYou were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
We began decoupling when we took a militant policy against immigration. You can take that back to Clinton in the 90s or all the way back to Eisenhower in the 50s. But we’ve been adopting strains of isolationism straight back to the final days of WW2.
You could describe the Cold War as an enormous globalized decoupling event, which we tentatively recoiled from a few times before collapsing back into it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
it depends where you look. there’s been intentional economic globalism areas. regionalism? we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
YMMV. The John Birchers hated that shit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
yeah they are a bunch of dipshits