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I mean, the article's not wrong. This fab is a hedge against China invading Taiwan. Which will almost certainly happen because of the West's weak response to

I mean, the article's not wrong. This fab is a hedge against China invading Taiwan. Which will almost certainly happen because of the West's weak response to Russia invading Ukraine. China will invade Taiwan and the US will need semiconductors. Taiwan is a better US ally than the US is a Taiwanese ally and will supply them. That's what this is about. Globalisation is still a thing, ish, but it's doomed. We thought the rest of the world (cough Russia, China and their rag-tag group of dictator allies) cared more about economic well-being than expansionism and petty grievances but guess what, we're the idiots and they don't. They want to dominate the world with their shitty dictatorships and we are too naive to see it.

thinking4real 4y ago
“Globalisation is still a thing, ish, but it's doomed. We thought the rest of the world (cough Russia, China and their rag-tag group of dictator allies) cared more about economic well-being than expansionism and petty grievances” Why should the US all the way on the other side of the world be depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? We have military proxy states set up all around Russia and China. The US has been the dominant power in the world for around 100 years. Not that I don’t benefit from it, but it seems willfully ignorant to act like it’s US good guy Russia/China bad guy. We’d do the same expansionist thing, as evidenced by Ukraine and Taiwan themselves…
- Mikeb85 4y ago
  > depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? Wow so people are just resources to be exploited eh? > We’d do the same expansionist thing Mexico is kind of shitty yet the US hasn't invaded. Cuba is straight up hostile, yet there they are, an independent country. The US basically conquered parts of Germany, Italy and Japan and not only let them be independent countries, even helped them rebuild. No, your theory is shit. The US has had all the opportunity to expand yet hasn't. I was in Europe during the Iraq war, sentiment was pretty anti-American. I'm in Europe today, it's more pro-American than I ever could have imagined. More anti-Russian than ever. If Russia and China wanted less hostile neighbours, maybe they should have been less shitty. Ukraine has been very pro-Russian at times, Zelenskiy himself even tried to make peace (he was the "pro-Russian" candidate during his election if you didn't follow Ukrainian elections regularly). Taiwan used to believe in "one country, two systems" but China fucked HK. I'm in Czech Republic right now, used to be part of the Warsaw pact. Yet the frontrunner in the presidential election is a former Chair of the NATO military committee and all the politicians who were previously friendly to Russia have disavowed. There's Ukrainian flags everywhere and Russians are banned from getting visas here. Despite the refugee and energy crisis I've never seen a more anti-Russian sentiment. Even Karlovy Vary, which used to have a ton of Russian tourists, has no sign of Russia anywhere. No tourists, no flags, nothing. Just yellow and blue flags everywhere.

thinking4real 4y ago

“Globalisation is still a thing, ish, but it's doomed. We thought the rest of the world (cough Russia, China and their rag-tag group of dictator allies) cared more about economic well-being than expansionism and petty grievances” Why should the US all the way on the other side of the world be depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? We have military proxy states set up all around Russia and China. The US has been the dominant power in the world for around 100 years. Not that I don’t benefit from it, but it seems willfully ignorant to act like it’s US good guy Russia/China bad guy. We’d do the same expansionist thing, as evidenced by Ukraine and Taiwan themselves…

Mikeb85 4y ago
> depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? Wow so people are just resources to be exploited eh? > We’d do the same expansionist thing Mexico is kind of shitty yet the US hasn't invaded. Cuba is straight up hostile, yet there they are, an independent country. The US basically conquered parts of Germany, Italy and Japan and not only let them be independent countries, even helped them rebuild. No, your theory is shit. The US has had all the opportunity to expand yet hasn't. I was in Europe during the Iraq war, sentiment was pretty anti-American. I'm in Europe today, it's more pro-American than I ever could have imagined. More anti-Russian than ever. If Russia and China wanted less hostile neighbours, maybe they should have been less shitty. Ukraine has been very pro-Russian at times, Zelenskiy himself even tried to make peace (he was the "pro-Russian" candidate during his election if you didn't follow Ukrainian elections regularly). Taiwan used to believe in "one country, two systems" but China fucked HK. I'm in Czech Republic right now, used to be part of the Warsaw pact. Yet the frontrunner in the presidential election is a former Chair of the NATO military committee and all the politicians who were previously friendly to Russia have disavowed. There's Ukrainian flags everywhere and Russians are banned from getting visas here. Despite the refugee and energy crisis I've never seen a more anti-Russian sentiment. Even Karlovy Vary, which used to have a ton of Russian tourists, has no sign of Russia anywhere. No tourists, no flags, nothing. Just yellow and blue flags everywhere.