However you feel about Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah you should recognize it as a watershed moment in global trade The liberal global economic order largely survived on the idea that supply chains could be stretched as far as possible to increase efficiency and profit with any serious downside The US Navy kept the shipping lanes open and economic exchange could remain security neutral This was all based on the assumption that the US would remain the undisputed global hegemon in perpetuity It was always insane to believe that this meant you could move the production of critical military hardware and medication like antibiotics to a country like China, but the US did it anyway The pager attacks shattered the illusion of security-neutral supply lines, countries can no longer pretend that a reliance on foreign goods and labor has no cost The post-cold war Pax Romana is coming to an end and countries who wish to survive will have no choice but to secure their own supply chains Many of the neocons on here like to portray Trump’s attempt to reshore manufacturing as a outdated and ignorant attempt to bring back the middle class In reality, reindustrialization is an existential necessity