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And that is not an excuse to do nothing. Much to the opposite, it should be an acknowledgement of risk, and that steps should be taken to have an infrastructure less dependent on foreign nations. Especially when they are hostile, such as the US right now.

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Would the investor even outlive the investment though? Imagine building data centers in the UK — only to get Brexit halfway through.

Any long-term, shared investment relies on continuous, guaranteed political and economic unity. Today it’s the US that’s hostile — but how confident can you be that tomorrow it won’t be a PiS-led Poland, or even an AfD-led Germany?

Every sort of investiment of any magnitude is subject to risk, and some of those are geopolitical in nature.

Is Europe less stable than other countries?

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