> the thousands and thousands of SaaS services we rely on can easily be build from the ground up by devs from all over the world
Define easily.
If it was that easy to clone Microsoft Excel (up to the most miniscule detail) I'm sure someone would have done it by now and offered it for free or for half the price. It's not that easy. You can get most of the functionality done sure but not all of it - and not having all of it wrecks the flows of all of your finance/accountant teams who won't be able to migrate or will be forced to work in different ways. Getting everything to work would take years. When Google "cloned" Excel to its own product and didn't even bother trying to make it 100% compatible with Excel because it's too much work.
That's just Excel, how the heck are you going to migrate everything else?
I think with enough budget and determination it can happen in around a decade I guess, but I don't see where the motivation or determination will come from - in a few years Trump will be gone and things will be more normal again.
Europe should have thought about this like 20 years ago , it seems a bit late to me.
The truth is the dependence isn't one directional , America needs Europe as well for ASML, for pharma and for all kinds of other things. I don't think there will be a complete decoupling.
"in a few years Trump will be gone and things will be more normal again."
Oh, you sweet summer child... He is already dismantling democratic institutions at a startling rate. Vance is threatening to leave NATO as leverage to change UK laws. Do not make the assumption that the U.S. will be what it was, in ten years.
Define easily. If it was that easy to clone Microsoft Excel (up to the most miniscule detail) I'm sure someone would have done it by now and offered it for free or for half the price. It's not that easy. You can get most of the functionality done sure but not all of it - and not having all of it wrecks the flows of all of your finance/accountant teams who won't be able to migrate or will be forced to work in different ways. Getting everything to work would take years. When Google "cloned" Excel to its own product and didn't even bother trying to make it 100% compatible with Excel because it's too much work. That's just Excel, how the heck are you going to migrate everything else?
I think with enough budget and determination it can happen in around a decade I guess, but I don't see where the motivation or determination will come from - in a few years Trump will be gone and things will be more normal again.
Europe should have thought about this like 20 years ago , it seems a bit late to me.
The truth is the dependence isn't one directional , America needs Europe as well for ASML, for pharma and for all kinds of other things. I don't think there will be a complete decoupling.