• YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    Setting up the infrastructure for that manufacturing is expensive and complicated, requiring supply chains and skilled workers. Even ignoring the risks of disruption by hostile action that’s a lot of infrastructure and industrial capacity to build up in an active war zone, and from the western perspective it’s better long-term to have that extra manufacturing capacity locally, to say nothing of being easier to sell to politicians and voters.