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daven said:

Well then China, buy more iPhones instead of homegrown cell phones.

... and stop threatening to invade Taiwan! 

The Trump administration's position on Ukraine clarifies that Trump is more aligned with Putin than NATO and the NATO countries are figuring that out. Europe needs to rearm and push back on the Trump administration hard, along every dimension possible. 

The challenge for Europe is that it's not entirely clear that there really is anything called "Europe," nor is it clear that "Europeans" (if they exist) care about democracy any more than Trump voters do. 

We shall see! 

So China doesn’t want India to do to China what China did to the US. 

eightzero said:

And given the US just put a Russian mole in charge of their intelligence apparatus, other countries are simply not going to give information to the US. The US simply cannot be trusted. At all.

Yeah, I don't trust this current US govt at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they intend to secretly do the exact same thing or worse. 

I've always trusted the security of Apple products, but as Tim Cook has said many times, Apple follows the laws in the countries where it operates (and obviously they have to). That means that Apple is only as trustworthy as the government in your country. I recently downloaded Signal for the first time. 

jeffharris said:

This is all like a bad movie plot. 

Idiocracy has arrived in Washington, full bore.

That's really unfair to President Camacho. I think he really did care about the people and was interested in making their lives better. He wanted the plants to grow.