🚨 SEC. SCOTT BESSENT SAYS IT PERFECTLY: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs, gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others."
"That is a DANGEROUS dependency for any country. It is an unacceptable one for the United States of America." 🇺🇸
"The truth is that for too long, America had been asleep. We mistook comfort for strength. We substituted efficiency for resilience and consumption as a measure of prosperity."'
"We told ourselves that so long as goods were cheaper overseas, it did not matter whether factories went dark in Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania."
"We assumed that supply chains would always function smoothly, and adversaries would always behave responsibly, and the invisible hand would correct vulnerabilities that too few in public life had the courage to confront. And while we reassured ourselves with those assumptions, risk accumulated all around us."
"Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of a foundational principle that previous generations understood instinctively."
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