[jauntywundrkind]

It's ridiculous to have to put up with this childish nonsense. This would take a decade, if both countries were pouring money and effort into the project. There's no incentives (other than the perceived existential one, where-in the US also loses all access) and the economics don't work. But we are subject constantly to the barrage of fantasy being put on by the nowadays US Government.

This feels only slightly more probable than Trump getting the EU to tariff China at our level (https://www.axios.com/2025/09/13/trump-sanctions-russia-nato...), join the US in economic suicide (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/trump-tariffs-sm...).

The commitment to not doing the right-thing unless you can coopt other people into doing incredibly harmful to themselves things feels like it's giving enormous quarter to the enemy, to the authoritarians of the world. Having an excuse for not doing the right thing, for cry-bullying your way through your inaction, is such a Demon-Haunting move. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404373