Goodbye to the interconnected world

And also the idea of free trade.

Remember: 

The idea that trade between nations would lead to benefits for all.

But now, we have all kinds of items, bought on the international marketplace, exploding in Lebanon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions

What is that going to do to the international marketplace?

Now, there were evidently very specific motivations for this act of terrorism.

But the point is that it, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that could be used by any party desiring to conduct terrorism.

Not good.

That genie should never have been let out of its bottle.