I remember Bush's words very clearly; "you are either with us or against us" which was a arm twister and not something an ally would do.
Little over 20 years later we are again forced to comply. Not for freedom, not for righteousness. No again for oil to make a few in the USA even richer.
And this time its bipartisan.
I think the Americans that died for my freedom are rolling in their grave about what their children are doing with it.
Normally I would understand our reluctance. But you know, old sentiment takes a long time to be overriden by new information.
The idea they have is "if we cooperate, we might not get hurt". But modern America will use you, empty you and then still turn their back on you.
So yes, I agree, better to cut ties now and start rebuilding without them. Now I just need to convince the people in power with all their investments in the USA.
I'll let you know how that goes ;)
dsign•2h ago
In practical terms, this bill is the equivalent of the major of a village forbidding the local blacksmith from making hammers for the goldsmith living in the next village, if said goldsmith sells jewelry to the vast enclave of dwarfs living under the mountain range.
On the enforceability front though, I believe that ASML uses enough American parts and services to be forced into compliance at least for half a decade, though I wish they would start unentangling from any American dependencies immediately.
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chvid•2h ago
Incredible what the EU puts up with.
etiennebausson•1h ago
Use no U.S. part, and you can sell to the whole world. Use U.S. part, and you might ne restricted to the U.S.
No way this can backfire in any way.
zdragnar•2h ago
jandrewrogers•1h ago
They may be able to do this but it would likely require many, many years before they could sunset their current EUV license. It could make more sense to just work on whatever will eventually replace EUV.
applfanboysbgon•37m ago