on January 18, 2026, 11:35 am, in reply to "There's no alternative, to coin a phrase (accurately this time)"
Plus one obvious issue is that EU would be telling private companies what services they can and can't use. That should go down well. 
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if it needs a continental communications Manhattan Project so be it.*
Reliance on critical infrastructure, finance, militaria, fuel, food and manufactured goods provided by increasingly militant geopolitical rivals is unviable - it always was but recent events have made this undeniable. Perhaps even to our rulers.
*This is exactly the kind of thing the EU should be for - it is also, for reasons that can only be guessed at, exactly the opposite of what the EU (and Britain) elects to make a virtue of.
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