>>105825094Exactly.
Same reason they like to have US troops there.
And russian troops.
And Indian troops.
They just have to make sure they don’t meet.
We found out the US has a whole base there at least… then tried to memory hole it.
The other thing is to try and make investors (at other companies) feel like it’s a smart thing to do.
Get one of the biggies, like intel, and the idea is other companies will follow suit.
The problem was, most of them saw through it, snd are like, uhh…. No.
You can tell things are different there, you think it’s like a regular city just like you’re used to.
Then you notice things, like every single car has a lock on the gas tank. So you ask about it.
The response? “Are you stupid?”
I guess the other part of the plan is to raise property values. It’s like new york that way I guess. They don’t like Americans at all.
Mellanox fired 100 of it’s US Staff because one of the American investors was asking too many questions.