> First you claim that the lack of tech companies rivaling with the US ones is because the EU countries had to rebuild themselves after the war and now you clai

> First you claim that the lack of tech companies rivaling with the US ones is because the EU countries had to rebuild themselves after the war and now you claim that is because the EU itself was just a baby back in the 90s and that somehow stopped Europe from producing these types of companies. There are more than one single reason for things to happen, again highlighting that the EU had other priorities at the time. > The same can be said for the defense of the EU countries which basically has consisted in the EU countries joining NATO because they decided that outsourcing their own defense was cheaper instead of building a proper European military alliance between themselves. I completely agree with you here, NATO is our saving grace but really even this feels uncertain these days. > In fact the NATO agreement specifically stipulates that all member countries need to invest a set amount each year in their own defense and guess what, only a few of them actually fulfill the term of this agreement. So who is at fault here? Complete complacency and thinking that there will not be any war once everyone is economically dependant on eachother and the US is always there. Agreed. > It's time for the EU leaders to grow up and make amends and course correct or be relegated to the dustbin of history. Again I agree with you, I'm not saying there wasn't some complacency, but it's not as simple to get things to move in EU, which again, is both a blessing (everyone is 'kind of' catered for) and a curse, things move unacceptably slow. The sentiment seems to be changing and I have to be optimistic about it and push my local politicians to get the finger out. I don't accept the nihilism I'm seeing though. I really am not saying that the EU did everything right, just that it's not as simple for the EU to get everything done as it seems to people. I would have much preferred we had our defense infrastructure in place properly before we started investing in tech.