The US loves fucking over the economies of allies, just ask Japan. It’s all about looking out for #1. Speaking of looking out, while the US is shrieking about foreign countries spying, it loves to spy on its supposed allies: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/
That’s nice, but I’m more interested in prices coming back down. The manufacturers have been pumping up storage prices even though demand has gone down by artificially constricting supply.