[nitrogen]

Governments that maintain such shortsighted positions will eventually find themselves superseded on the world stage.

[001sky]

Odd comment, in this context. Have you read the article?

[vinceguidry]

I'm curious, do you have any examples to point to?

[nitrogen]

It's based on intuition and is only a response to the direct parent comment. If the US of .3 billion people ignores the needs of 6.7 billion people, eventually those people will find a way to escape the needs of the US.

I'll note that the HN article title used to be significantly different, so some of the conversation makes less sense without the "accused of lying to the president" in the title.

[CamperBob2]

The US itself?