Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
by bakuninsbart on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:20PM
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There's no contradiction in interconnected economies being both better for global stability and more volatile to global instability. On a populist level, these kinds of questions are always presented as either-or, when in reality it is a pretty delicate balancing act. No, we shouldn't be completely reliant on potentially adversarial states for our basic well-being, but intertwined economies change the cost-benefit-analysis of a lot of adversarial geopolitical actions, and that has led to a lot less war in the world.
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Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
by baja_blast on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:38PM
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The USSR and United States had zero trade and never went to war. And since the fall of the USSR the number of conflicts has not gone down. Ukraine and Russia were very interconnected, but that did not prevent the invasion.
The United States sold huge amounts of grain to the USSR. Did this prevent a war, or make a war more likely? Who knows?
The USSR built their industry by hiring Americans to design more or less all of it.
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
by selimthegrim on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:53PM
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Uh, we sold them grain, and they sold oil, and let’s leave aside the NEP period…