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Russia is good at some things and bad at other things. The S-400 missiles use a SPARC-derived CPU designed by Elbrus but made by TSMC in Taiwan. Russia is world-beating in nuclear, they are the only people who build LWRs on an n-th of a kind (NOAK) basis and have a working fast reactor that is quite a beautiful machine with no drama. They will build a reactor in your country, supply fuel and then take it away.

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used to be made in taiwan. not anymore

Now it is not made anywhere!

> used to be made in taiwan. not anymore

They are idiots for allowing the tech to be produced overseas. It's the only true bargaining chip they have aside from their strategic location.

they don't have capabilities for local production. so it's either build overseas or not build at all

How does Russia have a strategic location?

The vast majority of their country is a frozen wasteland, and they desperately needed Crimea to have a decent warm water naval base. They have decent mineral resources and have shared borders with several important countries, but that is about all that is strategic about their geographical location.

Misread GP's post. Was referring to TSMC building plants overseas in Arizona.

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