We are aware of the problem, but don’t really have a magic wand to create our own mineral and energy resources overnight, including production lines for advanced chips, defense, train a proper army all while maintaining social plans and investment into infrastructure. The time for solving the problem is long gone, and now the only thing remaining is to do the best we can under the current circumstances.

If we go to a trade war with Trump, we will also deteriorate the our economy and Trump can pull his military support leaving us with both economic downturn and extremely weakened defence capabilities. This can’t possibly be better than playing along, for now.

A simple thing would be to cut a lot of social programs and finance more pressing matters, but we know how the people will react to it…