no backup connecting whole continents

Wtf are you talking about, there are dozens of them, its literally a huge network of cables.

Theres a whole website about it

Also, global economy is highly fragile, it can take one major investment bubble like in 2008 or event like Covid in 2020 to shake its foundations. Countries all over the world have to pump shitloads of money into it to keep the economy in a state where it won‘t collapse.

Most of them are probably like „Republicans want less taxes for the rich and less taxes is more money for me“

There are fairly cheap handheld heat presses on amazon that have way more even heat distribution and are superb for patches and vinyl transfer.