I’d rather suffer in poverty in my own nation and with my own people ... and with my culture intact, than to suffer the horror of my peoples’ disappearance from the planet and my beloved land being lost to foreign invading savages.
Good post. I agree, for sure. But anyone who'd try to say that poverty and isolation are the only alternatives to moving forward in this wonderful new world, is full of shit. Plenty of places can safely trade with one another (from Canada to USA, down into certain South American locations like Chile and Argentina -- Germany, Holland, UK, Australia, NZ, and on and on).
The idea it could happen that way, that we'd get our act together with proper trade, is what most scares the assholes of this world. It's the thing they're racing against, imo, and what's caused this warfare on us to start.