The problem with your thesis Rhino is that the US is currently specializing only in stupidity. The PRC is producing BOTH your toaster and iPhone and we're giving them all our IP to manufacture more of it. The self-appointed elitists fool themselves into thinking we are still making stuff because they spend tons of money on "craftsman" items but it leaves the vast bulk of the populace underemployed and dependent on government "assistance".

The dream of the globalists was that these networks of treaties and international agreements would make nations so interdependent that it would eliminate war. We've seen how well that thesis worked over the past 2 decades. So now we get loss of sovreignty to international bureaucrats and lawyers AND continual war. Lovely.