🆘 Europe tries to reduce its dependence on @elonmusk SpaceX and Washington threatens retaliation. The EU is considering reserving part of the satellite spectrum used to connect phones directly to satellites for European operators. 👏Governments have finally realised that relying on foreign companies for critical communications infrastructure is a security risk. Starlink has demonstrated its enormous value in Ukraine but also the danger of becoming dependent on a privately controlled American network. So Europe is trying to build greater technological sovereignty. 🔥 And what does Washington say? US ambassador Andrew Puzder warns European companies that retaliation could be “devastating” if Brussels disadvantages American firms. That is extraordinary language between supposed allies. And it rather proves Europe’s point. If access to critical technology can become leverage in a political dispute, then reducing dependency is not protectionism for its own sake. It is resilience. The US ambassador says Europe should work with America against China rather than restrict American companies. But Europe’s problem is increasingly obvious: what happens when America itself becomes the unpredictable partner? This is why Europe is right to build its own satellite network, strengthening cloud sovereignty and trying to develop its own AI and industrial capacity. And it is also why Britain needs to think very carefully about where it sits. Because the world is rapidly dividing into large strategic blocs with control over technology, energy, defence and communications. Being dependent is not the same thing as being allied.