Donald wants everyone to pay for their own defence yet will also charge the taxpayer extra for this own protection (while not paying taxes himself).

Alternate headline: Crusty old man grossly underestimates the sheer importance of advanced semiconductors

Trump is literally a foreign agent, working on behalf of China and Russia.

Does he think Taiwan sends us a bill or something?

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That's exactly what he thinks, isn't it?

This really shows how clueless this "businessman" is about business. Imagine China invades in Taiwan. About any business in the electronic sector will go down hard. Really hard. All over the world.

I posted a similar comment on some of the news around the US Republican's withholding aid to Ukraine for 6 months but this is insane.

Sure in the case of Taiwan specifically, the semiconductors is an obvious and immediate issue. But it's also worth noting that the US has spent countless trillions of dollars and worked through consecutive administrations for decades to establish itself as a reliable, irreplaceable and necessary defence partner.

This isn't just about Taiwan or Ukraine, but the geopolitical status of the US as a whole. It seems insane to me to jeopardize that. I'm no political scientist or anything so if this is actually in some way good for the US I'd be very interested to hear that perspective.

He should pay for his own defense

Taiwan will just say American corporations should pay more for those precious chips to fund it's defense

my understanding is that Taiwan buys weapons from the us, so he is demanding something that is already a common practice

All of Donald Trump's previous defense lawyers blink in surprise

Does Donny know where the processor of the phone that he posts all his verbal vomit comes from?

Are you fucking kidding me

What are we, the protection racket? Defend the nerd from the bully and then demand the lunch money for ourselves? FFS, can nobody be good for the sake of what's right and won't without expectation of a return?

No more free supply?