Consequently, the US had to pay exorbitant prices to China—the country where the brilliant architects of globalization concentrated nearly all of the manufacturing of these essential items—in order to secure airlifts of inadequate amounts of protective equipment just to prevent hospital closures in the midst of a pandemic.44 The country that spends more than half a trillion every year on its military (more than all of its potential adversaries put together) was unprepared for an event that was absolutely certain to occur, and it did not have enough basic medical supplies: investment in
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