I read it as:

We at ASML have a lot of cash. We think investing in Mistral will give us a ROI and investing in the EU right now is safer than the hellscape in the US. Politicians will like it as well. We'll let the PR firm worry about synergy.

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on_the_train 6 days ago | parent [-]

Asml does not have a lot of cash though. Not at all.

	▲	Cthulhu_ 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Neither did Musk but he bought Twitter and the US government. You don't need cash, you need value, and ASML has a value (market cap) of over $300 billion. As the Dutch say, "money must roll"; having cash (or value) but not doing anything with it means you're losing money.