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Better do business with UAE and reap the benefits, than let the benefits eventually go to China. Trying to forever suppress the middle east obviously hasn't wo
by maxlin 1y ago
Better do business with UAE and reap the benefits, than let the benefits eventually go to China.
Trying to forever suppress the middle east obviously hasn't worked, so this is just realpolitik with the obvious right choice being what is being done now imho. Saudis are gonna be autocratic in any case, this is just good Hearts of Iron gameplay in real life.
- int_19h 1y agoWhat are the benefits? The downsides are obvious: we're effectively arming people whose worldview is fundamentally incompatible with ours and who are, at most, allies of convenience right now, and with no guarantee that anything we'll give to them won't end up resold to China anyway (indeed, given that those regimes are notoriously corrupt, I think that's virtually a certainly).
- maxlin 1y ago>What are the benefits? It's good business. I'd assume you know what the benefits of that are. >The downsides are <snip> So, less bad than the alternative. The only real danger would be them selling the GPU's to China, but that'd be so short-sighted by them and cut short so its not really that much of an issue, and would be barely worse than the other option that'd come by default. Hell, if you learn from Russia's isolation, to a degree making the Chinese reliant on NVIDIA could even slow them down as they'd not be as pressured to advance domestic technology. Also, using terms like "arming" here is hardly fair.