Right. I meant they use it to identify people, e.g. for drinking and voting.

But the US uses it like a passport.

It’s a data center to keep AI close to the president and the others at the top of the hierarchy.

Right, that’s a problem. So Vietnam? Any other country?

They would not run the court, just host it.

There are conflicting political interests but how does the understanding of justice differ?

People with enough money or power

It was not enough.

Is there no other option internationally? Vietnam or India should be stable enough and independent enough to host it. Even China could be possible if pressure from the US is the problem.

That’s because of the Mexicans.

Not sure what that nonsense in the last paragraph is supposed to be about.

How useful are the satellites if the EU fights Russia? Wouldn’t the money be better spent on other weapons?

yet the launch business failed to make a profit in Q3 2026.

Which tells us that the costs are a bit higher than $20 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches

There were about 120 launches and 2/3 for Starlink.

If the launches sell for $76 million, almost $80m, then 40 of these launches and 80 times $20 million paid for everything to almost break even.

40 times $80m plus 80 times $20 are $3.2b plus $1.6b = 4.8b. That’s $40m per launch.

So you are right, the costs for Ariane 6 launches are not prohibitively more expensive to create a military project. But it can’t become commercially successful, so Europe will bleed money.

Europe does not need a 10000 satellite network

How many are needed? And what happens if Russia starts to shoot them down? Do we have the capacity to replace them?

The main aim is not power projection to the other side of the world

Yet that’s where the satellites should also fly if they circle the world.

but defense and services in Europe.

If Europe fights Russia, why would there be trench warfare like in Ukraine? Wouldn’t Europe have air superiority while Russia has the space technology to fill the sky over the front with shrapnel?

I’m just angry because we should have been better than that,

Do you think Norway was allowed to keep the profits while all other oil producing countries are regularly raided?

Internally launches could be as cheap as $20 million for SpaceX. https://innotechinsider.com/spacex/spacex-launch-business-margins-q3-2026-analysis/

https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-starlink-satellites

10,000 satellites are needed to have the same coverage.

With 100 satellites per launch that’s 100 times $50 million more expenses. It’s doable, but the money cannot be spent on drones, ai or medical research.

We can fill some holes but not all.

We don’t have reusable rockets which makes launching the fleet prohibitively expensive.

The EU pays for the weapons in Ukraine while the US makes the profits.

It’s a trap. There is no easy way out. The EU can’t buy their way to prosperity and if it could, it wouldn’t have the politicians to do so.

We can fill one hole but then we don’t have the resources to fill the others.

Any ideas what could be done?

That depends on who wins the war.

There’s no eminent conflict with Russia because Putin is pulling the strings with Trump

Do you think that Biden or Harris would have started a direct war with Russia?

China is a whole other problem

It is related. As long as China can rely on Russia, the US cannot isolate China with a naval blockade.

certainly not one Trump has a grip on or even a strategy for.

Trump is the strategy.

China grows faster than the US. They just have to wait to dominate the world. Which forces the US to interrupt them. Could they do it as a Democracy?

No skipping, no quick solution. World peace may take the rest of your life and there is no guarantee.

Of course. But you can also assume that the elite has fed a bunch of lies to the masses to keep them in line.

I think I rightfully believe that the US are still delivering weapons, e.g. https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/30/politics/us-approves-potential-patriot-missile-sale-ukraine and the EU pays for it as the graphic above shows. If I would go by the votes I would have to doubt this.

It’s not that easy to be sure about the US-China relationship. Maybe they find a way to coexist. However, if the US wants to stay number one they have to stop China’s growth. With Russian resources, China can grow independent from any foreign influence.

What do you think is the US strategy in this situation?

It’s very unlikely that Russia could decide the election with Facebook manipulation from the outside while the US could change the algorithm from inside.

Maybe I look twisted because your perception has been warped.

The US are delivering weapons and Europe is paying for them. There is no doubt about it. The article is saying that Trump is lying but the parts that were mentioned are true.

This is a 1984 double plus good situation. Among lies and disinformation, people don’t believe a fact about Trump that is true. It’s his fault and he deserves it, but society is lost if the majority has lost count and doesn’t understand what is happening.

The US have to split China and Russia to be able to contain China. If the US can win Russia over, their war with China and Russia will be less bloody for them because then it’s only China. So they don’t burn all bridges. Also, less weapons to sell to Europe if the war is over.