The US is declaring open war on anyone but them and their chosen obedient vassals controlling the commanding heights of technology.
The imperial core will enjoy the best, everyone else will be artificially stifled and slowed to keep them lower than the west on the ladder and enemies of the west will find trying to use western tech extremely stifling, expensive, and prohibitive.
I do like how Greenland, the US's loyal arctic intercept, radar, and operations base is yellow. Shows you all of Trump's bluster and talk about it has deeper roots in at least a desire for more control.
And as usual the tech bourgeoisie wail but do nothing. Empire is more important than short-term tech profits or benefits to the financial capitalists and the continuing march of these restrictions I think shows the way the winds are blowing. Anyone here seriously hoping that wall street's greed will restrain the west against China, BRICS, etc is clearly mistaken. The long-term thinkers are in charge, the hatches are battened down, it's time for cold war 2.0, the empire draws all strength to itself, all its forces, all its might, slowly winding down global free trade to protect the capitalists but still forcing them to take a loss and for what? To play for it all, to play for another century of dominance, to bet on a few decades of intense sanctions, blockade, and all the dirty tricks of the CIA to bring down their enemies and give the US a "new American century" with exploitation of all that now defy them their prize in victory and their assured destruction and implosion their prize for failure.
Wake up honey new "World Systems Theory" confirmation just dropped
It might be because Portugal and Brazil have a really strong trade relation. Also Portugal is buying Russian LNG through intermediates.
I was wondering if Portugal was laying off the Russia hate train, and by that I mean somewhat resuming trade relations. So this is actually quite interesting.
Publicly they keep going on about sanctions, but the droughts have wrecked their hydroelectric power plants, and buying US LNG has proven extremely expensive.
How are the USA gonna implement export restrictions for specific EU countries? It's one market.
It means NVIDIA and their authorized resellers can't ship certain things to certain countries and if an agent, end-buyer, etc in those countries that can be shipped to re-ships to a yellow country then they're in violation of sanctions and will presumably have their assets frozen and stolen, their executives threatened with arrest, etc, etc.
Laugh now if you want but the US is very experienced with sanctions.
This isn't to stop um say someone in Portugal from getting an RTX 4090 by the way. The point is to stop not small components that can be easily smuggled like a single graphics card, but to stop the kind of bulk sales of data-center and AI chips which are almost always sold and bought in bulk from reaching unwanted places. Even the US cannot stop some French citizen from selling a gamer graphics card to someone in Russia. But what they can do is identify any actor spending $300,000 on AI chips placed in the restricted category who then resells them to a yellow flagged or red flagged country in that quantity for use in building or expanding a datacenter or AI applications.
My greatest hope is that Taiwan is playing a long game and milking the West. Please god it would be so funny. 🙏
even if not, there is always the chance that a TSMC top talent moves to China.
