A lot more people have been interested in foreign policy the past few weeks, which could be good, but I wonder why now amid a steady amount of ongoing global conflicts. Hopefully there will be more determination to advocate for deescalation of armed conflicts and arms dealing overseas. Though the triple bottom line podcast has been mostly about local affairs, a lot of the initiatives can work but face capital constraints. Meanwhile a high percentage of all taxpayer dollars go to bankrolling our military industrial complex, supporting a defense strategy to secure cheap imported products, namely oil. With regionalism, dependence on exports would be negligible. No jobs lost, more resilient economies, less war.
