Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by reidjs on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:23AM
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Agreed. Which country’s ”war machine” would you prefer Silicon Valley powered??
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Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by Clubber on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:39AM
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Switzerland.
Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by q1w2 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:19PM
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They wouldn't be neutral if they carried that much power. ...at least not for long.
Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by mhb on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:51AM
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From 1943 Switzerland stopped American and British aircraft, mainly bombers, overflying Switzerland during the Second World War. On numerous occasions during the war, Allied aircraft trespassed on Swiss airspace; mostly damaged Allied bombers returning from raids over Italy and Germany whose crews preferred internment by the Swiss to becoming prisoners of war. Over a hundred Allied aircraft crews were interned and placed in ski resorts which were left abandoned due to the lack of tourists after the outbreak of war. They were to be held in there until the war had ended.[20] At least 940 American airmen attempted to escape into France after the invasion of Normandy, but Swiss authorities intercepted 183 internees. Over 160 of these airmen were incarcerated in a Swiss prison camp known as Wauwilermoos, which was located near Lucerne and commanded by André Béguin, a pro-Nazi Swiss officer. The American internees remained in Wauwilermoos until November 1944 when the U.S. State Department lodged protests against the Swiss government and eventually secured their release.
Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by nix23 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:50AM
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>From 1943 Switzerland stopped American and British aircraft, mainly bombers
Because of those "incidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_incidents_in_Switzerlan...
And a pretty good Video from a fantastic channel:
Re:Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine
by mc32 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:49AM
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You have to imagine Switzerland with 100MM and then think about it.
So, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia, India, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Mexico…
Which one would you prefer to wield the sword other than the US.
How would Pakistan feel if India were the hegemon, and vice versa? Use your imagination.
In order to be a hegemony you need to be able to sustain that. You can say: I grant thee Andorra or Singapore hegemony over the world. You rule. That’s like giving a toddler in a village a Kalashnikov. It’ll ‘rule’ for an hour till it can’t feed itself and then the brute wrests it away while it sleeps.