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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can figure out how to make our own laptops and chips.  Probably better anyway.

No hot war for foreign countries.  Not one American life.

Now that said - if you get a Hitler esque, trying to take over a whole continent, trying to exterminate millions - yes we did the right thing, even at the cost of American lives.  But not willing for my kids to die for Taiwan or the Ukraine.[/quote]

We are in the process of doing this, but we have to create several industries. We have to mine our own rare earth materials.  We need to set up factories in the areas that used to have factories and are now ravaged by poverty, drugs, and resentment, and we have to figure out how to swallow the massive price increase that would come from insourcing this. There is no way around the fact that we are worse off without Taiwan.

We have genocides all the time, that isnt why we get involved.  We wouldnt have gotten involved if Japan hadnt bombed Pearl Harbor.  We get involved when we perceive an existential threat to a critical aspect of our security. China now controls too much-- chips, medicine, etc.  They have us on our knees while they are ascendent. Read The Peloppenesian Wars, a classic military history piece, for why people think war with China is inevitable.  [/quote]

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