| > Can't build chips True, but that's true for every country, even Taiwan. If ASML (Dutch company), Applied Materials, LAM Research, KLA, Synopsys, Cadence (US companies), Tokyo Electron, Shin-Etcu (Japan) and literally hundreds of other companies didn't cooperate, TSMC couldn't function either. BTW, that's why China can never "take over" TSMC - they can just make it defunct when all these other companies stop doing business with it after the invasion. Basically, the planet is making chips, not any individual country. > can't make ships, I suggest you look-up the Jones Act and its unintended consequences. And then think why American voters never consider this kind of stuff when voting. > can't make furniture, can't make clothes, Fair enough, though this is more a matter of what is economically viable vs. what is possible. There are economic losers, sure. But there are big winners too, most notably in the "tech" industry. It's incumbent on the US to smooth-out the transition for their own citizens, instead of allowing special interests and monopolies to run amok and incumbents to Gerrymander themselves into office. Ultimately, American voters allowed this to happen, and when they saw the results, they fell for a demagogue. > can't make enough weapons to supply Ukraine, let alone for any real war. I hope you are not suggesting Russo-Ukrainian war is "not real". This is almost WW2-level stuff. I suggest you take a look at the photographic evidence of vehicle losses, keeping in mind that the actual losses are likely higher: Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
(main battle tanks: 3786, total: 20577)
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum... Attack On Europe: Documenting Ukrainian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
(main battle tanks: 1092, total: 7965)
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum... |
And are we cranking up our industrial might to make more tanks? No, we aren't making any, not for Ukraine, not for US. Sometime in the 2030s we are supposed to have a modified and improved M1E3.
The success of the tech industry is orthogonal to globalization.