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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by rad_gruchalski on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:58PM (#43210702)
Look, the fact that you guys came here to Europe and liberate us from the nazi Germany, then you defeated Japan, made you a global superpower because you effectively won the war. You have been in this position since the war until 20th of January this year. Trump is actively removing USA from the position of the leader. Talking about leaving NATO, removing soldiers from Europe, … something that took decades to establish takes weeks to destroy.

What’s next? “TSMC give us all trade secrets or we don’t defend Taiwan”?

You have all there benefited from these decades of being in that position.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by michtzik on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:50AM (#43219726)
> What’s next? “TSMC give us all trade secrets or we don’t defend Taiwan”?

I think you're beginning to understand how national interests work.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by rad_gruchalski on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:21PM (#43225106)
Dude. There’s always a bigger bully. National interest my ass. You’re being robbed by a bunch of hot shots and you smile and clap. The king Vladimir Trump is coming.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by eagleislandsong on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:58AM (#43219822)
> TSMC give us all trade secrets or we don’t defend Taiwan

Trump has already threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Taiwan if TSMC refuses to transfer technology to the US (thus effectively undermining Taiwan's own Silicon Shield defence strategy) and revitalise Intel: https://techsoda.substack.com/p/tsmc-faces-tough-choices-ami...

I hope Taiwanese leaders have the balls to say no -- it's not as if Trump has a stellar track record of honouring his word anyway. Besides, tariffs on Taiwanese chips will end up seriously hurting American companies like AMD and NVIDIA, so Trump might walk back the tariffs once Jensen Huang and Lisa Su pay sufficiently large bribes.

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