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The reality seems to be that for decades Europe gave only lip service to decoupling from American tech infrastructure, but in the last couple of years America h
by dpark 29d ago
The reality seems to be that for decades Europe gave only lip service to decoupling from American tech infrastructure, but in the last couple of years America has gone from being seen as a strong ally to being a major risk.
It will take time to move. Frankly as an American I hope it takes a long time and we get our shit together and rebuild our alliance with Europe. But it’s possible that the damage is not reversible in the next couple of decades and Europe will accelerate their decoupling. It’s also possible we continue to slide into imperialist authoritarianism (and Europe definitely accelerates their decoupling).
- eternauta3k 29d agoAren't the supply chains hopelessly intercoupled in a million tiny ways? E.g. turbine blades being done by this single German company, x1000
- dpark 29d agoThey absolutely are. But this doesn’t mean that they won’t unwind those couplings. It just means it will be hard and take time.
- simonask 29d agoAlso, what lip service, exactly? This is what I mean: Americans don’t understand the immense dividends they have enjoyed from being the defacto symbol of “progress” in the 20th and 21st centuries so far. American solutions were chosen by European customers because they were reliable trading partners with an air of modernity. Homegrown was seen as the antithesis to leapfrogging into the future. People celebrated when McDonald’s came to their country or town. Not anymore.