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So the EU had a chance where they could be independent, but they blew it. It's probably too late now. They are now slaves to the USA energy markets for the medium term future at least - and yes, it is entirely the fault of European leadership and their myopic ideological view that allows the US to easily corner them and force them into whatever position it wants. If they had been less sinophobic, less russophobic, less zionist and pushed back more against the USA to guarantee Minsk 1 & 2 and the JCPOA then none of this would be happening, but everytime Israel/the USA commit barbarous and perfidious acts, they are always there to cover for them and side with them reflexively.

Couldn't have said it better myself. It's akin to striving for freeing the superstructure while piling chains on the base so to speak as while technological dependence is an issue its a lesser one than the real problems they've gotten themselves in and it's pure liberal rose-tinted glasses that convinces them otherwise. There is no way this can lead to any kind of independence from the US given the overall situation.

If anything it's a smokescreen to rah-rah-rah against the US for EU audiences while actually creating a draconian censorship regime over the internet that is responsive to the EU in particular which crushes, deplatforms, censors, criminalizes pro-Palestine speech, anti-EU speech, anything critical of the EU-Atlantacist foreign policy blob, etc. They want complete control over speech and the internet within their borders. So it's an attempt at exercising some limited autonomy rather than being entirely subservient to the latest whims of whatever US admin just got in power and decides that they must destroy woke or other nonsense which isn't great for the stability of the liberal project long-term. And that last sentence I think is the real problem. Trump has been leaning on them trying to push American culture war crap which doesn't sit right with European liberals who have decided that kind of thing is 'Russian' so this is their attempt to prevent the US from gaining that leverage over them but it's too little too late given all else that's happened. Some good things like a few open source projects will get funded via it at least.