I don’t know if this is authentic of not, but the email to me This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. appeared to be from the White House, asking me for advice. Joe Biden, if I can believe the email, wanted to know what to do, since the US is too weak to defend Taiwan, but all the yummy chips and computer bs that the West needs are there and China will be unstoppable once it gets it. My confidential reply was that the factories that churn out this tech bs need to be blown up, which would be easier than defending them. Would they have the guts to do that? It would raise the middle finger to China, and would be hilarious. Maybe the West needs to rediscover self-reliance, or just die.