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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by altacc on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @07:01AM (#43253474)
Yep, spreading democracy and freedom is PR. I think there's a historical preference to installing or supporting a dictator rather than a messy democracy. There's several cases where democratic elections delivered a government the US didn't agree with, so they orchestrated regime change.
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by arandomusername on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:13AM (#43256596)
Exactly. Even in Ukraine, Yanukovych was democratically elected [1] and US was potentially involved in overthrowing him [2]

[1] https://www.oscepa.org/en/news-a-media/press-releases/press-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

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