[Info-vax] [OT] USA

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-06-20, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2023-06-20 14:51, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, it does. The US is currently using its power to force its allies
>> to also impose sanctions. In a more general way, the US imposes a threat
>> of being frozen out of the US banking system to get its way.
>
> ??? Sanctions on Russia have not been forced on by the US. You might 
> better blame the UK in that case, which has been leading this more. Or a 
> bunch of former eastern european countries, who have various past bad 
> experiences with Russia, and know all too well what it's all about.
>
> What other contries are there sanctions against? North Korea. Seriously 
> - you think that the US bullied other countries into those sanctions?
> Syria? Iran?
>

China. Please research the situation with ASML and what the US is doing
to a European company as one example.

That will cause short-term pain to China, but in the long term, as they
are forced to invent a homegrown solution, that will backfire big time
as it means there's one less Western piece of technology they rely on.

That's also going to cause long-term pain for ASML as their currently
world-leading technology ends up facing a Chinese competitor.

>> BTW, where did the Covid-specific medical supplies come from ?
>
> Are you talking about all the face masks that were substandard and not 
> usable? Yeah, there were a whole bunch of those delivered to Sweden from 
> China. I don't think not having them delivered would have made things worse.
>

Not just those. The Covid tests I had to take were also marked as coming
from China. Apparently, we couldn't produce something like that, in the
timescales required, ourselves.

Simon.

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