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The 'Free' trade that followed was often forced onto countries who weren't buying the free-ness angle. Like the Americas, which were created on free-mass-murder, followed by free-trade (the land was free if you killed the people living on it).

And then, there was the freedom of China to accept opium in exchange for actual goods. Did they ever benefit from the free-ness of that exchange.

And in my lifetime, any country that refuses to use freedom-dollars in exchange for their resources (which must be freely purchasable by International monopoly-like corporations) is usually destroyed in order to save freedom.

Adam Smith seems to have proven that countries could trade freely and fairly with mutual benefits ONLY IN HIS NOVELS.