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"Need" defending? I couldn't care less who rules Ukraine, Taiwan, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, and these countless other places half-way around the world. It's not like China taking over Taiwan will have any impact on semiconductors. They're happy to play merchant to the world, independent of allegiance. E.g. - Ukraine complains about China supplying Russia with tech for their drones, while failing to recognize t…
> I couldn't care less who rules Ukraine, Taiwan, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran Oh you will. You most certainly will.
The thing about nukes, to say nothing of US geography, is that the chances of us being attacked is literally zero, unless it's a doomsday type nuclear bombardment affair. We don't even have to worry about things like a decapitation attempt since we're not surrounded by hostile military bases, or any other country's military bases for that matter.
Whatever the rest of the world wants to do - that's their problem. This isn't necessarily isolationist because I'm perfectly happy trading and engaging in any positive way with other nations, but this sort of 'nation building' and geopolitical crap we try to do just about always fails, and the few times it hasn't (like South Korea) is far more incidental than consequential. We left them with an endless series of awful dictators in charge and they somehow stumbled their way into becoming a half decent place, independent of us.