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FriedButter

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Chevalier said:
Russians eager for payback for nato forces in Ukraine; make sure they have whatever they need to sink a few US naval assets and carriers even. The more they bleed here, the less capable they’ll be for their desired Ragnarok in Asia.

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If Wagner is there then they are most likely not going to be engaging any US forces as their primary task. They are in Venezuela to provide security for President Maduro. I highly question the reliability of Venezuelan Security Forces, Military Officials, or Government Officials to not be in cahoots with the CIA. Kinda like Zelensky and his rumored French military security.
 
GZDRefugee

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Overbom said:
Actually think that EU might be really screwed. Is it even worth it for China to give up this golden opportunity to significantly damage/slow-down major Euros downstream industries?

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Tell me how you would feel if you are Chinese policy maker seeing these EU numbers..
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I'd start squeezing the balls immediately. However, I am not a Chinese policymaker—who have repeatedly demonstrated an uncanny ability to give up strategic advantages.
 
GZDRefugee

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gelgoog said:
So how come the CEO of Nexperia was going to layoff the workers if Nexperia had just increased capacity in those very same European fabs? These people are just retarded in their excuses.

The CEO had plans to massively increase revenue with extra capacity and a huge chunk of it was to come from the Chinese fab WingSkySemi.
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A quick search on LinkedIn shows that Nexperia Hamburg was hiring staff very recently, like within the last 4 weeks recently. Does that make it seem like they want to close down the European branch?
 
plawolf

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siegecrossbow said:
What I find baffling about the whole thing isn’t so much that the Eurocucks are evil as they are woefully unprepared. Shouldn’t they have warned their companies before taking such drastic actions? A month or two of stocking could mean the difference between bankruptcy and hanging on by a thread.
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There are many reasons for this.

Firstly, there isn’t remotely close to internal unity of purpose within individual EU national governments, never mind collectively. Quite often there are rival factions that proactively work against each other on ideological and interest divides. To get around this, often factions will go rouge and do things they are not authorised to, in order to force the government to then retrospectively back their play since what they have don’t cannot be easily undone, so it’s better to look guilty than incompetent. This is also why Bessent’s first guy reaction to getting absolutely wrecked by Li was that Li had gone rouge rather than China has ran out of patience with him. Because going rouge happens so often in the west.

Secondly, which is linked to the first point, is that most western politicians couldn’t keep a secret to save their lives. Any attempt to read people in to create broad consensus is almost certain to have the plan leaked to the media and hedge funds long before the planned implementation date. The idea of organising a cross government and industry conspiracy to prepare for a major supply shock would be something even Beijing would find taxing never mind the EU.

Thirdly, there is no fucking money available for them to pay to build up reverse stocks even if they wanted to.

Lastly, and probably most importantly, the idiots in charge honestly thought they could fool China with their legal lawfare bullshit arguments. So they just didn’t expect China to retaliate. No doubt they also applied their own racist idea of how Chinese think into the equation and assumed that China will be easily cowed by their strong arming tactics like how their domesticated Chinese cucks behave. Or that the profit obsessed greedy Chinese will be too worried about loosing money to fight back.
 
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siegecrossbow said:
What I find baffling about the whole thing isn’t so much that the Eurocucks are evil as they are woefully unprepared. Shouldn’t they have warned their companies before taking such drastic actions? A month or two of stocking could mean the difference between bankruptcy and hanging on by a thread.
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I see all these online comments, articles, Reddit "experts" that think themselves so smart for stealing Nexperia.


All I ask for Christmas is for daddy Xi to time-travel me one week in the future. One more week, and salty Euro tears will start flowing in like never seen before. Ursula de Lying will be 24/7 crying along with Mer(z)cedez and Little Napoleon calling for retaliation lol
 
siegecrossbow

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iewgnem said:
It's not just China knowledge, it's a couple of other observations:
- Total lack of subject knowledge in western governments. From my experience you can never underestimate how little people know about something and the vast majority of personal interactions does not involve the need to know anything.
- Western culture trains people to only get their thinking points externally, especially boomers, they literally would kill themselves en-mass (COVID) if the TV told them to do so.
- People equate something's importance only with how many people talk about it and not based on it's objective merit.

Case in point, the fact that Dysprosium is needed in RE magnets, and that RE magnets are neodymium magnets, that neodymium magnets come in many grades and shapes, that they're critical for brushless motors are all knowledge that almost nobody knows outside engineering. When China first announced export control on Dysprosium 6 month ago it was just a single line item half way down the page, while this forum knew immediate it was huge, it's presentation and obsecureness hid the nature of that rule for almost one or two month before magnet shortage popped into news, they literally didn't know they were being starved as China's already starving them.

The fact that large number of Chinese officials has engineering background is far more consequential than most people realize, even if they at a surface level recgonize its benifits.
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What happens when you have too many non-technical people in charge.
 
9dashline

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iewgnem said:
It's not just China knowledge, it's a couple of other observations:
- Total lack of subject knowledge in western governments. From my experience you can never underestimate how little people know about something and the vast majority of personal interactions does not involve the need to know anything.
- Western culture trains people to only get their thinking points externally, especially boomers, they literally would kill themselves en-mass (COVID) if the TV told them to do so.
- People equate something's importance only with how many people talk about it and not based on it's objective merit.

Case in point, the fact that Dysprosium is needed in RE magnets, and that RE magnets are neodymium magnets, that neodymium magnets come in many grades and shapes, that they're critical for brushless motors are all knowledge that almost nobody knows outside engineering. When China first announced export control on Dysprosium 6 month ago it was just a single line item half way down the page, while this forum knew immediate it was huge, it's presentation and obsecureness hid the nature of that rule for almost one or two month before magnet shortage popped into news, they literally didn't know they were being starved as China's already starving them.

The fact that large number of Chinese officials has engineering background is far more consequential than most people realize, even if they at a surface level recgonize it's benifits.
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All of these US politicians and Western leaders can run a Deep Research AI query to figure all this out...

I think they intentionally prefer to live in collective state of delusion
 
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