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Sovereignty needs to be viewed as a full stack pursuit, where at each point in the supply chain - from cobalt in the ground to email with document attached - a question must be posed whether the EU is at correct degree of ability to operate without each current trading partner. That includes considerations of stockpiling, relationship stability & adversity, shipping lanes, and many other things. The complexity isn’t noticed because for 99.9% of things we’ve settled into comfy patterns.

Slicing at the cloud (Azure) without considering “above” or “below” isn’t detailed enough. There are technologies and supply chains EU has neglected that need to be restarted. The industrial policy needed to do this will stimulate amazing innovations Europe can one day be proud of.

But man is it hard to add an eclipsed capability to an advanced economy. It’ll be in the difficulty ballpark of bringing high speed rail to the US.