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by juunpp 501 days ago
You put it well. It should also be noted that the embargos and tariffs will only sabotage the US's own interests in the long term, as if the Chinese were not intelligent enough to make their own in-house technology. Wait until their own GPUs beat NV's; there are already startups at work [1]. The NSA used to put backdoors in US-made hardware, which it was then happy to distribute worldwide; now, somebody has decided that encouraging China to make their own will work well for US interests? I have no idea what this foreign policy is meant to accomplish. Even if you were the most patriot of US patriots, I have no idea why you'd support this policy. Even Huawei is striking back [2].

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-gpus-made-by-moore...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-28/huawei-ha...

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> I have no idea what this foreign policy is meant to accomplish. Even if you were the most patriot of US patriots, I have no idea why you'd support this policy.

Because the vast majority of Republicans in this country have no fucking idea how e̶c̶o̶n̶o̶m̶i̶c̶s̶ anything works, and no desire to learn. The entire platform now is fuck liberals.

And they still won't learn even after they lose their pensions, their federal funding, jobs, whatever else. They're married to the dumbass now. The best we can hope for is the rest of us riding out their finding out phase of their fuck around journey.

It's basically a slow return to the cold-war era strategy of brinkmanship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship