Would it be internationally allowed for the US government to step in with billions in loans to Intel to get their act together? Slowly losing the last fab company left in NA is so incredibly depressing.
Is it surprising that the government of a nation would act in its nation's interests? My understanding is that the reason for supporting globalization, free trade, etc was that those policies _were_ in our best interest rather than being some lofty ideology that we should always strive for.
We should absolutely pour money into Intel.
I think having Intel involved would be fine, as long as yeah it was spun off and didn't discriminate between customers.