> every country should manufacture its own entire telco stack - clearly anything foreign made is a higher security risk than one that is domestically made. Imagine an adversary being able to remotely trigger a nuclear war by issuing commands to a router
You're weirdly implying every country is an adversary of every other. There's no good reason for "every country should manufacture its own entire telco stack," but it is reasonable for them to only source equipment from ideologically-aligned natural allies.
> You're weirdly implying every country is an adversary of every other.
Isn't it? Ideology is a lie, people are all the same all over the world (except maybe for some peculiarities like western chauvinism). Everyone wants to live contented lives, be free, raise kids in peace and so on.
Every country should have it's own sovereign tech stacks simply to avoid effects of corruption or irresponsibility of global elites. Otherwise we see stuff like US' economic and sanction wars, which create pools of poverty, which inherently cause plunge of observance of human rights, which causes immense suffering of ordinary folk -- all that so someone could make money on something like cheap rare earth metals mining for selling electric car batteries.
Can you expand on what you mean by western chauvinism? My time in eastern Asia has taught me that many of them see members of others Asian (and non-Asian) races/countries as inherently inferior.
huge risk to rely on any other country though, friends today may become enemies tomorrow.
Have we already forgotten that US dropped atomic weapons on Japan yet are now fast allies or that US supported the Islamic fundamentalism in Afganistan before now becoming enemies. US + Saddam bosom buddies in the Iran vs Iraq war.
> huge risk to rely on any other country though, friends today may become enemies tomorrow.
Real life isn't some RTS game. If a flip like that happens, it won't happen very quickly.
Also autarky isn't even possible for most countries, and is probably a weakness for most of those that could pull it off.
> Have we already forgotten that US dropped atomic weapons on Japan yet are now fast allies...
That's an example of an enemy becoming an ally, so not exactly relevant.
> or that US supported the Islamic fundamentalism in Afganistan before now becoming enemies. US + Saddam bosom buddies in the Iran vs Iraq war.
Those are allies of geopolitical necessity, not "ideologically-aligned natural allies." For the latter, I'm thinking of things like NATO (maybe sans a couple of members) and "the Anglosphere."
You're weirdly implying every country is an adversary of every other. There's no good reason for "every country should manufacture its own entire telco stack," but it is reasonable for them to only source equipment from ideologically-aligned natural allies.