Estados Unidos inauguró la era del bienestar económico al usar cuellos de botella como armas políticas. Ahora, otros países hacen lo mismo, y sus ventajas se erosionaron porque desarrollaron mecanismos de competencia y abusaron en su utilización. Para prosperar, Washington debe librar la guerra económica con más disciplina, coordinación y sostenibilidad. De lo contrario, enfrentará una fragmentación económica y menor seguridad.
The United States ushered in the age of economic warfare by learning to weaponize chokepoints. Now, other countries have learned to do the same, and its advantages have eroded because others have built competing forms of leverage, and because Washington has too often used its own advantages carelessly. To thrive the order that emerges from it, the U.S. must wage economic warfare in a more disciplined, coordinated, and strategically sustainable way. Otherwise, it will confront a more fragmented economy and reduced security.