Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools

Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by mg794613 on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:15PM (#42771423)

This has been going on long before Trump even thought about going into politics.

There is a reason the US does not recognize the ICC. And we also know they have the plans ready to free any soldier from the Netherlands _if_ we were to arrest a American soldier.

And the US _will_ execute that plan. And the Netherlands _will_ sit back and let it happen.

See, the world is a big schoolyard, and America is tired of shaking people down for protection money and threatens us "to start protecting ourselves".

I don't like Trump, but I can't deny he accelerates events that should have started a while back. Very good for our future, not so much for the US. But that's what they voted for.

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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by cscurmudgeon on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:15PM (#42772009)

> shaking people down for protection money

This is false though. No one pays US money for defense. The 2% spending is on their own industry. The analogy breaks down.

If anything, the US pays to support other countries/allies.

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Re:Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools by bravo33 on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:05PM (#42774685)

they kind of do though since that money goes into the NATO money pool and purchases weapons with US of A specifications .... ahem I meant NATO Specifications.

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