• zephyreks [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The real problem is that the US has shown their hand: theo willingness to use sanctions purely for economic purposes makes those sanctions not only useless in the long run, but detrimental to the American goal of maintaining globalization (and thus reliance on American technology). I guarantee you that India is currently asking itself how it can develop a strong domestic semiconductor industry and that the African Union is trying to secure semiconductor supply from multiple players right now.

    In fact, this crosses beyond semiconductors and into every technology that the West currently dominates. Aircraft, engines, materials science, pharmaceuticals… the weaponization of sanctions has pushed and will continue to push the world towards a deglobalized, multipolar entity where domestic capabilities are prized once again. In fact, I expect a mass hiring of PhD students into the Chinese academic system soon to elevate China’s research capability while stealing talent away from the US.

    Biden knew all of this. Why do it, then?

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      Biden knew all of this. Why do it, then?

      The answer is as usual: because this is how US imperialism operates. This is how they landed after decades of political practice in imperialism and this is what earned them the hegemony. Remember that US isn’t the secret cabal operating in a small room and deciding everything with pushing sliders like in computer game. It’s an ossified bureocracy with incredible inertia which not only can’t just change its course, but it can’t even institutionally devise any alternative to the good old methods of intensifying exploitation because it has all of the equally ossified influence groups behind them which aren’t interested in anything that could intentionally decrease the profits. Especially in fastly changing world. They will be of course eventually forced to do it, but it will be too late and too little.

      Note how even centrally planned economies had huge prolems with changes. Those that still exist managed it when USSR destruction radically changed the world 30 years ago, but the cost was great.

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      Aircraft

      Is that why F-35 crash every other week?

      Engines

      Remind me, why’s NASA using Soviet rocket engines?

      materials science

      Questionable, but aight

      Pharmaceuticals

      Germany would like a word