The uncomfortable truth is that industry IS state politics.
The Volkswagen CEO has the German chancellor on speed dial.
If your government's politicians have an emergency session on the future of a particular company there is no "free market".
> Friedman’s claim was simple: The benefits of economic integration reduce the policy choices open to governments, making war—which disrupts that integration—so unattractive as to be practically unthinkable. If that sounds like the theory of the capitalist peace as understood by Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Richard Cobden, well, it pretty much was.
If you're going all-in on the free market and globalization, you need an answer to the national security objections, and that (unconvincing) answer is the risk to profit that conflict represents makes conflict unthinkable.
The thing that free market absolutists frequently forget that market values are not the only values, even among market participants. That's especially forgotten by forum participants who read a book proceed to swing around Econ 101 like it's a club.
I assumed they would say something like tariffs=bad, unless it's to overcome market manipulation by some state actor.