From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 6/02/2026 1:52 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   > Don Y  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I fully expect this to happen during Trump's administration.   
   >> He probably realizes he won't be able to do anything about it,   
   >> especially after his designs on other foreign countries and   
   >> alienation of his main allies.   
   >>   
   >> ["No, you haven't been ATTACKED by China so Article 5 doesn't   
   >> require us to come to your aid..."]   
   >>   
   >> Of course, more and more manufacturing is TRYING to be on-shored.   
   >> But, I suspect that is nowhere near enough to address the   
   >> potential of Taiwan going off-line -- even briefly.   
   >>   
   >> I'm thinking back to how screwed up the supply chain got during   
   >> COVID and wonder what manufacturers and investors will do when   
   >> the future is far less certain than a "pandemic".   
   >>   
   >> Opinions?   
   >   
   > We have sleepwalked into this and the few who have raised the alarm have   
   > been (and still are being) ignored and ridiculed.   
   >   
   > There is a wider problem: we have become 'travel junkies' and rely too   
   > much on transport.  "I can get it cheaper from..." doesn't take into   
   > account the hidden costs such as liability to supply disruption, loss of   
   > control over the design and the fundamental need to teach underlying   
   > principles and train people in making things themselves.   
   >   
   > We haven't got the factories.   
   > We haven't got the machines.   
   > We haven't got the people who know how to operste the machines.   
   > We haven't got the machines to make the machines.   
   > We haven't got the people who know how to make the machines   
   > We haven't got the material.   
   > We haven't got the undustry to make the materials.   
   >   
   > In the thrall of Greenwash we have simply exported the 'dirty' jobs to   
   > other countries and then added to the pollution by shipping the goods   
   > back.   
   >   
   > If Russia could do to the UK what it is doing to Ukraine, the country   
   > would have to surrender within a week.   
      
   If the UK ignored the fact that it has it's own nuclear weapons and the   
   means to deliver them. Putin might be mad enough to do that, but a   
   single surgical strike taking him out might lead to his replacement by   
   somebody somewhat saner.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
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