Patrick J. Wolf
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Patrick J. Wolf
@PatrickJWolf
Father | Husband | Idaho | 14th generation American | Economics | Politics | Business | ☧ | Engineering, MBA, PhD | @iamtpolicy Senior Fellow




What does it actually mean for a nation to be sovereign? Not in the diplomatic sense, but in the physical, material sense that determines whether a country can act without asking permission? @patrickjwolf attempts to answer this question in our latest release for the @MooseInstitute's The New Outlook. He looks at American deindustrialization — tracing how decades of trade liberalization, financial short-termism, and the quiet cultural dismissal of industrial work have left the United States dependent on foreign suppliers for the inputs that undergird national power. The consequences are no longer theoretical. China controls roughly 90% of global rare earth processing capacity. American commercial shipbuilding accounts for 0.1% of global output. Since 2000, the U.S. has lost more than 91,000 manufacturing plants and nearly 5 million manufacturing jobs. A nation doesn't lose sovereignty the moment it closes its last factory. What it loses first is the ability to resist coercion — and to negotiate from strength. Read "A Nation That Can't Build Will Be Constrained By Those Who Can" at The New Outlook. newoutlook.org/p/a-nation-tha…

















