or let's pretend EU and NATO is the same thing for car counting purposes
Ukraine = 9 mil cars
EU = 250 mil cars
US = 290 mil cars
Total = 549 mil cars
versus
Russia = 57 mil cars
China = 415 mil cars
Total = 472 mil cars
and yes in fact our cars are NOT made in China
there are very few cars sold in US that are made in China such as Polestar 2 and those are getting hit with not quite sanctions, but they do lose federal tax incentives that made in America electric cars get ...
I'm not sure that's a great gauge since most people agree that mass transit is a good thing and countries with good mass transit (Like Germany and Japan) have less need for cars. It's still way better than GDP though, I think!
most people also agree that vaccines are safe and effective and eating bugs prevents weather.
here, i have some writings ( my own ) for you on the subject:
https://dissidentsound.discoursehosting.net/c/urbanism/urbanism-explained/88
Just a quibble that while entire Chinese cars are not sold in the U.S. most (all?) cars will have some raft of subcomponents sourced from China
that is true. for electric car to get full federal tax incentive not only the car has to be made in US ( or partner countries ) but the same for the battery and minerals used to manufacture the battery. this is all designed to punish Chinese manufacturers and support American ones.
the point is our leaders aren't as dumb as you think. they thought of this stuff.
