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"From the autarchic illusions of the last century to the sovereignist impulses recently pushing to leave the euro, Italy has never been strong when it decided to go it alone," he added.

Myanmar, once Asia’s main rice basket, was among the region’s poorest countries after the military seized power in a 1962 coup and imposed an autarchic “way to socialism”.

But announcing, ultimately celebrating an autarchic socialism was a catastrophe.

An answer to Rouhani, however, came days later from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who argued that the West could not be trusted to lift sanctions and that Iran could thrive under an autarchic “resistance economy.”

It is, however, more autarchic than other global powers.