[theothertimcook]

Reminds me of Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances from the 90s, where they gave up their nukes for assurances of protection…

Has the US government has gotten more trustworthy in the last 3 decades?

[general1465]

Whole Budapest Memorandum and subsequent unwillingness to act as signed sealed the deal to never give up nuclear weapons for nations which got them and also opened other nations to finding a way how to make or get control over their own nuclear weapons - like Poland, Japan or Germany.

Only the threat of glassing a capital city of an aggressor will keep an aggressor at bay.

[SpicyUme]

It is a shame, that thought started in my mind with the invasion of Crimea. France came out looking pretty smart for their policy of entirely homegrown nuclear programs.

[autumnstwilight]

Well, look at what happened when Hyundai sent their staff over to get a factory that the US wanted built. (My understanding is that they were bending the rules of short term visas because the correct visas were simply not allocated to South Korea in the number required and there was somewhat of a blind eye turned in the past in the interest of getting anything done ever.)

If I were at TSMC, I would not trust that the correct visas would be available in a timely manner to complete the project and also that any staff sent over there might get scooped up by ICE and sorted out later.

[theothertimcook]

That blows my mind, all the while, not surprising me at all.

Ending up in a elsalvadoran processing centre because of red tape and political drama