All we need is “outsourcing”

Sir, after reading John Gapper’s “A cleverer way to build a Boeing” extolling the virtues of almost full outsourcing with as opposed to chaining itself down an as close to 100% local component production as possible, I cannot but sadly reflect that in my country Venezuela, if offered to help produce a 2% of the A380 it would currently have rejected it on the grounds that I must be an effort by the Empire to penetrate it.

Outsourcing seems as a constructive road to world peace there is and in this sense we should perhaps promote a rule that states that no country shall be allowed to contribute more than 5% of the components of any weapon. I can almost hear John Lennon rewriting a song.