In my father’s print shop in Bologna, the machines were loud, but the rules were quiet. You printed the manifesto, you printed the parish bulletin, and you printed the government decree.
The rule of law, I have found, rarely cares about whether a network has good intentions. It only cares if the procedure was followed, or more often, if it was circumvented by political will.
The great theater of American exceptionalism, it seems, has finally encountered a counterweight that refuses to be dismissed as mere geopolitical noise.
The clash between national security doctrine and global commercial ambition reveals that supply chain sovereignty is the new determinant of investment risk.