You already know why.

This is a precursor to kicking X out of the country

Yes, of course. Those things are also all true.

I agree, but we should have diversified our trade in the 90s when we realized Mulroney’s us/can free trade agreement wasn’t going to last forever, and when it was becoming obvious that China was rising fast as a manufacturing powerhouse.

IMO, we should have forged a tightly integrated trade agreement with the EU and spearheaded the Trans Pacific Partnership way sooner.

We’re in the pickle of current events because we were largely complacent at the table of a global market that marched ahead without us in the ways we wanted.

Current modern supercomputers are actually a mesh of relatively lower spec machines, not a single “computer”, per se. The cost of these isn’t the hardware, it’s the low-latency interconnects and writing the software that can carry out jobs in a massively parallel way.

Your main character syndrome is showing.