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I hit a paywall. http://archive.today/U6BUV http://archive.today/U6BUV > [...] whether they have all the critical technologies needed to run a country and its
by denton-scratch 4y ago
I hit a paywall. http://archive.today/U6BUV http://archive.today/U6BUV
> [...] whether they have all the critical technologies needed to run a country and its economy.
That's what he seems to mean by "technologically sovereign": apparently, it comes down to being able to build computers from sand and copper ore. Well, if you define "sovereign" that way, then of course the UK can never be sovereign. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers; we've been dependent on trade for 400 years.
Maybe he's just having a go at the new Tory leadership, which has some odd notions about being completely independent of any one else on principle. But if that's it, it doesn't come across in the article.