GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]

You know I’ve been discussing this with my sibling: this event may seem like nothing considering this probably won’t lead to invasion. You know, just a terror attack which the entity regularly engages in.

But in the grand scheme of things this is going to snowball into collapse of the western tech market in Western Asia and probably the world.

China’s semiconductor game is on point. They’re only a few months away from western tech standards and they continue to move forward. I mean it tracks with their records on solar panels and EVs, sectors that the west used to dominate until China locked in.

Their biggest competitors were western tech; Apple and Google are massive competitors (and often they do out-compete Huawei in the global stage) among other western companies.

These waves of attacks (we’ll probably see more in the future, since I doubt it’s just pagers and radios) tells everyone that even western tech supply chains aren’t to be trusted before it was just the tech with regards to backdoors and surveillance.

But now your fucking device could turn into a bomb? Whose to say that your home appliance can’t be turned into a fucking bomb; what about your TV and laptop?

Countries have already gotten the memo, this is reminiscent of the US kicking Russia out of the SWIFT payment system. That was the nuclear option that the west thought would bring Russia down, instead it expedited dedollarization and BRICS enrollment. Saudi Arabia started offering oil in the yuan after what happened to Russia.

Countries, especially if they’re in the US’s cross hairs, are probably looking at incorporating more Chinese alternatives. I’m talking Chinese made from A to Z. Nothing with western involvement.

Chinese products are good, and they constantly improve and get cheaper. You don’t innovation in the west like you would get from China. All this attack did was expedite the global shift to Chinese tech.

Tldr: western tech will go the way of the American automotive industry.

Detroitification of silicon valley