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On the GPS issue I'm quite confused. If the EU or anyone else wants or needs it's own system why doesn't it build one. The US may discourage it, but the EU has shown that it doesn't have to acquiesce to the will of the US, but if the EU continues to rely on the system the US offers, then there should be absolutely no complaining about the US's ability to control/withdraw that system unless that complaining is addressed directly to the EU or other government that feels it shouldn't have to rely on the US. Something?s are our fault, something?s are not.
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Because US companies supply a fair amount of goodies to Europe, and US companies are/were pressured to refuse to allow for the possibility of a 2nd GPS-like system. A GPS system that only worked with half of their equipment wouldn't be particulary useful in a military application.