X @Balaji

Btw: it’s true that there are both imperialist nationalists and autarkic nationalists.The imperialists want to conquer other countries, while the autarkics want nothing to do with them. Both actually have a logic and an illogic.The logic of empire is: like any business, if you're not growing you're dying. But there's also an illogic, the illogic of imperial overstretch.Similarly, the logic of autarky is: it's good to be able to build it yourself. The illogic is when that's taken so far that there's a reject ...