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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by cvwright on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:06PM (#43261461)
Agreed that stability is super important.

So much so in fact that you’d think more rich countries would help pay to maintain it.

But yet here we are…

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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by simonh on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:16PM (#43261519)
Bear in mind that after WW2 the US didn’t want European countries arming up too much, and was quite happy to pick up the slack and set the pace. Eisenhower in particular was pretty clear he didn’t want a heavily armed Germany or Italy, for reasons that should be obvious, and was Dubious about France. It was the US that wrote the heavily pacifist Japanese constitution.
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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. by NicoJuicy on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:19AM (#43264162)
US didn't want other countries to have a large military ( which includes nuclear with a Russian neighbour) power.

Germany didn't want that role too, as one of the biggest economies in Europe, because of... History.

Germany just enabled 1 trillion in spending for the military. That's historical

1,7 trillion of the Norway fund will be enabled ( partially ofc), that's entire Russia's GDP alone.

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