> That alone is good enough to motivate the policy decision.

This may work when its against an smaller. When deployed agianst a (near) peer - there usually isn't a price to high for a field of national security interest. China could get all the GPUs it wants / the US could get all the rare-earth magnets it wants over the objections of the other country.

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LarsDu88 13 hours ago | parent [-]

It can get all the GPUs it wants... at a higher price.

	▲	overfeed 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It can get all the GPUs it wants... at a higher price. That's implicit in "there's no price too high". However higher the price is, the difference is still a rounding error when your budget is trillions of dollars. I present this short-form documentary — or animated infographic, if you will — on how much governments are prudent in saving money in areas considered of vital national interests, denominated in GPUs instead of dollars: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F6jMsMBVB34