Comment by MaxPock
5 hours ago
Becoming such a sore loser. Historians will probably look this as the most shameful period of the American empire.
5 hours ago
Becoming such a sore loser. Historians will probably look this as the most shameful period of the American empire.
Because they have held off on adding these companies to the list in order to avoid increasing tensions with China?
ETA from the first paragraph of the article: "The U.S. has held off... to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing."
did you just came out of under a rock? lol
> the American empire.
When the dust settles it won't even be a single page in history books, my local bakery is older than the "american empire"
In the 1990s, web browser SSL encryption was export restricted, classified as a munition because it involved cryptography. That was under Clinton.
For all the current admin's insane, ridiculous, corrupt, and criminal flaws, it's not clear to me how much of this particular issue is just the US government doing what it's always done, knee-jerk react to tech it doesn't understand by passing stupid laws.
Gonna skip over the chattel slavery and native genocide in future histories?
Or that time that we parked an army on the Rio Grande because a bunch of people from the US decided to settle in the Mexican territory of Texas? That was a whole thing and the President of the US at the time, James K. Polk, ran on a platform of "Manifest Destiny" -- that the US should span "from sea to shining sea." There were a whole host of other countries with interest in that territory, not to mention the Indian tribes who would be displaced by that policy. The US has had a lot of dark periods in our history, and we shouldn't let those periods displace us from the moral certainty we derive from the Declaration of Independence and things like The Bill of Rights.
Yeah, and that time we sacrificed nearly 1 million of our own citizens to end slavery.
Yes, because we weren't an empire then. At the time Trump befouled our country, Pax Americana was a thing. We have voluntarily walked back from that position of moral and strategic leadership.
In that regard, history offers few precedents to learn from. Most countries have to be physically attacked to suffer the kind of damage that American voters are inflicting on themselves.