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Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America by TaylorAlexander on Sunday February 25, 2024 @09:58PM (#39507202)
The comment we're discussing just mentions “US interests”. So for example providing military support to Ukraine, which the republicans keep blocking, or establishing programs to manage the border, which Biden has proposed and Republicans now oppose because they don’t want that issue relieved before the election, so they can point at how bad Biden is with the border.
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Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America by rayiner on Monday February 26, 2024 @08:12AM (#39510890)
Supporting Ukraine isn’t in America’s interest. Stopping bankrolling random foreign wars was one thing republicans finally got right after decades of getting it wrong.

And the border proposal was a fake-out, just like Reagan’s amnesty, which was supposed to be combined with border controls but never was. The goal of the recent border legislation was to make 5,000 illegal crossings a day (5 times higher than under Obama) the “new normal.”

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Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America by schainks on Sunday March 03, 2024 @02:33AM (#39579198)
It is absolutely in America's interest. For less than 0.01% of the defense budget, the USA can disarm Russia as a threat for another 50 years, if not forever.

The ROI looks pretty good:

1. Bolster NATO (Sweden and Finland have joined already)

2. Bolster the EU (Ukraine and Turkey gaining membership would be interesting)

3. Revive EU self-interest in not relying on US military and cash. This directly results in less foreign random wars because more parties are stakeholders.

4. Diplomatic leverage against China. They are actively supplying manufacturing capacity for weapons to the Russians.

5. Transparency around for who is supplying who with what regarding weapons and Russia. This makes it easier to sanction people/companies that do things that are Bad For Business globally.

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