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This is one of the reasons we were wondering if the US can switch off our fighter jets. The ones we own, brought from the US.

The US clearly state that extraterritoriality is fine with them. Depending on the company, one gag order is enough to sabotage a whole company.

> I don't know, with that argument you can argue that everything is dependent on everything

It is. And China have been the only ones intelligent enough to have understood this very long ago. They also show that while entire independence on their scale may be a pipe dream, getting close to it is feasible.

Of course you know, the US government can use many methods to enforce their demand, it makes no sense to use an Amazon alternative to Amazon, it's such a nonsense to join a conversation about migrating away from Amazon suggesting that.