This is a false dichotomy, you can have privacy and still be militarily and economically relevant. But say that you were right, and you have to choose between

This is a false dichotomy, you can have privacy and still be militarily and economically relevant. But say that you were right, and you have to choose between privacy and relevance, if you choose privacy, then once you are entirely economically dependent on Russia (Europe is still paying more in energy money to Russia than in aid to Ukraine) and China — when Europe is a vassal — it won't be able to make its own laws anymore.