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No it's not. Learn the actual history before you make vague comparisons.
It works just fine or is USA not having a war right now, arming like crazy and want to fight for lebensraum with China, while also having meager real economy output? I guess you should learn more about history ;)
What's the comparison, US is at war so it's like WW2 Germany? Hasn't it been this way since the 1960s?
I don't think that's the main reason. It's more the impression that the US can't be relied on to defend against Russia, especially after the oval office meeting where they went on about Zelensky not saying thank you. I got stuck in a crowd on the pavement for twenty minutes after that because all the European heads and Zelensky flew into London for an emergency meeting to discuss the "oh shit the US is no longer going to defend against Russia" issue and they decided to ramp up our own defense and support for Ukraine.
It was a worrying situation because if Ukraine were to fall, Putin would then probably round them all up into the Russian army and look at attacking EU territory like the baltics leading to an EU/NATO vs Russia war. Hence the arms.
Discussion at the time - meeting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 5349 comments
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43307996 2313 comments
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The renewables rollout just keeps going despite the discourse. It does mean buying things from China, which is now the least threatening option.
I don't mind buying from china, as long as they're not irreplaceable essentials (like oil). Solar panels and -batteries are fine as long as they meet safety standards and don't have backdoors, and for all the fearmongering that Chinese made tech has backdoors in them, nobody seems to have found any evidence of that. And since it's electronics, any chip and any software can be investigated and taken apart by both amat…
Are you asserting no backdoors were found in Chinese made tech? I'm not sure how it'd happen in solar panels (which sucks, since I own a couple of these). Another thing to keep in mind is plausible deniability. If you don't patch software, it will be vulnerable, which is an issue in networked software, especially. So what I have seen happening (and I can name some examples of companies here, both Chinese and Taiwanese) where vulnerabilities are simply not patched. Sometimes, they're plain obvious.
I have seen KRACK vulnerability not getting patched. I have seen old MiFi without proper firmware updates, like ever. I have seen motherboard update software still using HTTP instead of HTTPS. And in the world of IoT, it has been a huge mess from the get-go.
Furthermore, the core network of a major telco here was maintained by Chinese engineers who were flown from China. You can probably guess the company name here.
The tactic is obviously not limited to China or Taiwan only, but it can be tackled with reproducible builds and FOSS.
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We didn't 'rellied on US defense'. We have a different policy... We have Mauser, Carl Walther, Sauer & Sohn, Haenel, DWM, Krupp, Reinmetall, Hckler & Koch and more. We know how to do military
I hope you're French, otherwise you are still relying on US defense.
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Short time? No, the US has been losing its stance in the world since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, murdering a million people in cold blood on the basis of outright lies. It has been downhill ever since then. The support for the Gaza genocide is just one in a long list of atrocities for which the American state is responsible, and for which the entire world is starting to hold America responsible. The rest of…
Today it's Iran, or maybe Iraq 2003. Or maybe those pharma factories in Sudan in the 90s. Or perhaps the Serbia bombing. Or maybe Iraq 1991. Or again Panama in 88. Or maybe Grenada. Or maybe Laos. Cambodia. Vietnam. Haiti. Japan. China. Phillipines. Cuba. etc. It's always something. We are always losing our stance.
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It's more like a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to Israel, while the threat to the US is longer term.
Iran isn't a problem for the US, it's a problem for Israel. They're a third-world country on the other side of the world. And their govt is severely corrupt and oppressive, but that's their problem, which we aren't even trying to fix with this war.
If America stopped messing with far-away countries, it might get something more palatable.
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Iran isn't a problem for the US, it's a problem for Israel. They're a third-world country on the other side of the world. And their govt is severely corrupt and oppressive, but that's their problem, which we aren't even trying to fix with this war.
It almost makes you wonder how they got that government doesn’t it? If America stopped messing with far-away countries, it might get something more palatable.