From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Bill Sloman  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Has it?  I thought they were dependent on the U.S. for delivery.   
      
   >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.   
      
   ...or someone even more extreme with the same hinterland of sycophants.   
      
      
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