European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan European leaders on Thursday announced an International Digital Strategy designed to help the bloc address technological change at a time of global political realignment. "We are living through a profound digital revolution that is reshaping economies and societies worldwide,” said Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for …
A strategy to free the EU from USA clouds will take a lot of investments. That comes on top of increasing defense budgets (to 5% of GDP) and the costs of Climate change and the energy transition.
And there seem to be even more policy interests that cost money. Together, digital sovereignty still seems too much a "nice to have".
I don't think much will happen until the US becomes a worse problem than these other dangers.
Can all these problems be solved? Because we all know politics cannot act.
As counter example, I would like to point to the spring of 2020. There was this pandemic and within months the world changed course 180 degrees and everything was possible, including $T of economic changes.
Also on a single country scale everything is possible if a real need arises. In spring 2022, Ukraine went from a perceived failed state to stopping the second strongest army in the world in a week.
So, if necessary, it can be done. But when do we decide it is necessary?
"Yes, it's a silly question. We know the answer; "us""
Who else, it is our country, we benefit, so we should pay.
We can try, like a certain Very Stable Genius, to let foreigners pay for it, say, the Americans, but that seems to work not so good.
But we could tax, eg, companies and individuals who benefit from our economy by getting high profits and massive wealth. Taxing the wealthy is not as unethical as many think.
"I don't think much will happen until the US becomes a worse problem than these other dangers."
It other words, until it's too late.
Given the overall tone of international partners etc it sounds as if they're wanting to outsource things instead of the very obvious need to get on with things I think that's very likely to be the case.
I don't understand why you post as AC and haven't already got far more up-votes.
Britain has been handing over its computing achievements ever since there were any computing machines, particularly in the time of Turing and then in the 1980s when Cambridge (I was there then) was the Wild West of personal computers.
(Even though my EU citizenship has been stolen from me, I cannot think of the UK as being separate from the EU.)
Now we are in the situation where (1) the NHS is handing over my personal health data to Thiel's Palantir --- a mate of the Orange one, (2) many universities and other organisation are handing over my email to M$, which frequently marks it as spam so doesn't delliver it and (3) we are all under relentless pressure to get "smart" phones owned by Google and Apple that spy on their users relentlessly.
So, to pick up your analogies with Covid and Ukraine, (1) instead of lockdown we have "eat out to help out" to ensure that the virus has maximum opportunity to spread as widely as possible and (2) we have asked Путин хуйло to take care of all of our tanks and drones.
@ChodeMonkey
"All this free time to write so much and yet say so little. Things that could be easily condensed into 3 bullet points:"
You say I write so much and yet of your 3 points only the first is correct, the second is wrong and wtf is the third? I am surprised you have so much time to follow me around and troll so much.
that one statement says it all.... talking shop gravy train
only neccessity breeds real change and that wont happen until....
1) assett prices starts decreasing (hopefully gradually so things dont get too bad)
2) banks are then forced to reassess their balance sheets and stop "printing digital fiat magic"
If the gospel truth be told, rather than pussyfooting around the matter like a collection of useless and toothless fairies, would the story be told that a new remote and practically anonymous and relatively autonomous technocratic executive be in virtual command and control of future geopolitically disruptive, universally effective events with all earlier previous nationalised New World Order Players either consumed and forced to wage war and do losing battle against forces and sources way beyond any means of their influence and oppositional direction/alternative self-serving instruction or engage with and embrace the fundamental and radical change of Greater IntelAIgent Games Play with no stupid rules or leaderships for their regulation and bending/pwning.
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