alt Hacker NewsEuropeans have a lot of alternatives to American services, including building out their own.
What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S. They have the technical know how and can build the manufacturing capacity but that will take a decade at least.
Also, European financing is just not as strong.
However, with the U.S. voluntarily walking away from its role as the center of the world, this may not be a problem for too long.
Tech is the easiest service to replace considering American tech workers by insisting on WFH have already largely eliminated the geographical advantages American tech used to have.
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> What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S.
Pushing this message is disinformation that has been particularly successful part of the OrangeMan administration.
Europe can defend itself. Combined they have huge military resources and technological replacements for most of what the US can provide.
So - Europe can defend itself. But it prefers to use money, allies and Ukrainian soldiers lives to avoid having to.
Between three and five members of the EU could become nuclear powers complete with delivery systems within a year if there was political will. A couple of them in significantly less than a year. If the EU is truly responsible for its own defense, then it gets to choose how to go about that. There is only one way to do that in the time frame in which it will become necessary.