My pet conspiracy theory with Galileo is that it was only ever a play towards the Americans to remove the possiblity of a GPS lockdown, which could have been us

My pet conspiracy theory with Galileo is that it was only ever a play towards the Americans to remove the possiblity of a GPS lockdown, which could have been used as a bargaining chip. (Or towards the Russians and Chinese, on the level of "we, the West, can always lock down GPS and Galileo for ourselves if you don't cooperate"). Therefore it was only necessary to put in as much funds as necessary to make it look like a serious project, but not the amount of money to actually get it delivered on a reasonable timescale and level of quality.