re: Reminder: A Single Company in Taiwan Makes 92% of the World’s Most Sophisticated Chips

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Most of that country has lived in subsistence poverty for many times the years America has existed. I think you underestimate how little they are intimidated by sliding back in that direction or by the will of a handful of dwindling, in-fighting, weak western nations...most without any military might left.

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Those pastoral populations wouldn't be affected directly by the war but would likely face mass starvation when the government ignores them to divert resources towards propping up the city economies/war effort.

Again, I'm not talking about occupying these lands.