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'It Would Be The Dumbest War In History': Danish MP Hits Back At Trump's Greenland Threats
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With Ukraine, Russia had recent easy incursions to Georgia and getting Crimea. So they legitimately thought that they'd just roll tanks to Kyiv in a few days and get more strongly worded letters and enjoy the loot. So he attacked Ukraine because he thought it would be easy. It's got valuable resources, and Putin has this goal of restoring Soviet borders.
Easy enough to understand why, at the time, he did it. If there's one silver lining I wonder if China became more reluctant about Taiwan seeing how thins can go.
Naw. Getting the US involved in several different conflicts is a great way to sideline the US when it comes to Taiwan. It benefits China and Russia if the US is distracted, spread thin, and fighting with allies.
The silver lining is it out would cause the collapse of the US economy making it easier for other countries to fill the void.
Russia/Ukraine is not China/Taiwan, so China wouldn't be taking notes.
'Sides, if the chinese step on the shores of Taiwan boom goes TSMC and their reason to even going there.
Talking over TSMC may be nice, but I think they would settle for getting rid of it.
You're talking about getting rid of one of the most profitable company on this planet, along with all bleeding edge CPU and GPU technology.
Major setback for this connected world of ours.
I'm not convinced that's a bad thing.
Yes, major setback for the world, but China's interests aren't aligned with the world.
If they can't have TSMC, second best thing (for them) would be to get rid of it to improve China's standing in participating in that market.
Yes, it means that everything is set back, massive shortages, all sorts of bad stuff. Stuff that China wants to be sourced more from China, so if the most competitive alternative is out of the picture, then they can do better.
Russian Imperial Borders. He doesn't idolize the USSR but rather the Russian Empire.