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What agreement? Even Gorbachev (last leader of USSR) confirmed that there was no such agreement.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-e...
And it did not voluntarily dissolved itself, it fell apart. Like when your plate voluntarily dissolves itself when you drop it on the floor.
https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2022/in...
Or people might start voting for right wing parties promising to cancel these taxes. As just happened during last European elections.
>Gross
What is gross on it? To manufacture electronics you need to have working clothes, usually ESD complaint and hair covered again due to ESD (dry hair can generate lot of charge) but also if you are working with dumb and strong machines (CNCs, Lathes, KUKA robots) you are covering your hair to not get scalped.
That sounds like unintentional death spiral for a company. You don't have juniors, it is hard to get seniors, because nobody is training juniors. So when all the seniors eventually leave, company is left with tech stack which nobody understands and few people hired for maintenance are only able to perform specific rituals left from previous generation. This might work for a while due to momentum but after some time it will just implode under its own tech debt and one unexpected push - like nobody is making servers which our tech stack runs on a we need to migrate...
Furthermore word missile is often used in history for arrows, spears and stones exchange during battle.
So technically it could be considered a missile.
It is basically guaranteed that microwave or laser beam from there is going to have a dual use purpose. As a source of energy and as a directed energy weapon. And it is a quite high chance that it will get banned by power which did not build it. Be it China, Russia, EU or USA.
Of course, somebody will chime in and tell that advanced civilization could transmute any matter into any other matter. But if that would be possible, then it is completely negating any motivation to build Dyson swarm at a first place, because you can just transmute your toxic waste from local your local dump into antimatter and you have virtually endless amount of energy at your disposal.
Furthermore nuclear disasters killed dozens of people, while water related disasters killed thousands of people. Another reason to ban dams.
Wiring is even more problematic. When PVC will degrade, you need to change whole wiring not just the broken part, because changing only the broken part will make more problems in different parts thanks to the fact that you will need to manipulate with rest of the harness and degraded PVC has tendency to get hard and break off. Wiring for the car can cost several thousand EUR because it is basically manual labor without much prospect for automation. If it is car older than 10 years, it makes no sense to do that.