US State Department ignoring sovereignty

This might be a small potatoes issue, but starting out as a GNU zealot tech libertarian and seeing how deliberately the (US) government repeatedly dropped the ball in terms of embracing open source infrastructure and developing their own technology solutions in-house definitely influenced my radicalization arc to a degree. Not as much as more life-and-death issues which I only grew to appreciate in adulthood, but this is fertile ground to agitate, especially for any euros floating around.

Tech Sovereignty is a laudable goal, but it is also turning into a big marketing buzzword. To some, it means not allowing the US to rugpull your state institutions, while to others it means prostrating yourself so the mega-polluting OpenAI and Palantir surveillance datacenters can be built in your country too.

Right now, in light of the US’s enthusiastic violations of international law, Global North Liberals (especially technology professionals) EXPECT their countries to take the matter of tech sovereignty seriously. A cost must be exacted every time the ruling class squanders and sandbags these opportunities in favor of supplicating their citizens to US dominance.