| ▲ | joe_mamba 3 hours ago | |||||||
You speak about India? Yeah, EU is super fucked too since it outsourced its energy dependence to Russia, consumer manufacturing to China, defence and tech services to US, and only just woke up in the last 3 or so years that it was all a huge mistake that's now costing us dearly since we're at the whims of all 3 belligerents who know that now is the time they can squeeze us. Trying to undo just one dependency is a slow and painful process, but fighting all 3 at the same time is a suicide mission. The US outsourced its manufacturing too, but unlike EU, it has a strong enough economy and military that they can just snap their fingers and the likes of Taiwan and Korea will immediately onshore manufacturing of their high end chips and ships to the US, but EU doesn't have this kind leverage. | ||||||||
| ▲ | js8 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> only just woke up in the last 3 or so years that it was all a huge mistake If only! We just outsourced all our agriculture to Latin America (MERCOSUR free trade agreement). | ||||||||
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