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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by jacquesm on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:23PM (#30458276)
The USA has a long, long history of being able to move when it has to. I'm pretty sure that if they want to re-create a particular level of expertise that they will be able to do so, given enough time.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by bumby on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:52PM (#30458645)
Time is the crucial part, IMO.

The DoD has identified the loss of manufacturing capability as a national security risk. Maybe lower labor costs were the impetus of off-shoring manufacturing, but nearly 40 years since globalization took hold there's also a lot of manufacturing that has to go overseas simply because America is no longer able or willing to do it. Could the US bring back that capability? As you said, even if there was the will it wouldn't happen overnight.

Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by baybal2 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:51PM (#30458628)
I think you have no idea what entails what you are talking about. The world of semi has moved enormously since eighties, when the only country outside of USA with serious chip industry was Japan. Aside from "end of the pipe" fabs, and fab owners, everything else moved out, or never ever been a thing in USA.

US semiconductor equipment from LAM, and Applied Materials are more than half imported parts. US semi industry never used OSATs, until it had to ship their chips to Asia for that, and thus missed out on most of new packaging, and test tech which evolved outside of the US. Similarly for almost everything else.

Replacing Asian material suppliers for the US will be as hard as for China to develop a domestic photolithography stepper.

Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by jacquesm on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#30459341)
> I think you have no idea what entails what you are talking about.

Ok, then we'll stop talking.

Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by baybal2 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:39PM (#30459982)
I am not telling you to shut up, and I am telling you to take a deep breath, and think this over after reading up on topic a bit.

"We will betray our allies, and they will leave us alone" is a form of defeatism, and entertaining others into this way of thinking is not what a citizen of NATO country should do, let alone a public figure.