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  • The countries in the EU simply haven’t really needed to spend a whole lot. Most of what our military did for the past 20 years was uselessly fucking around in the middle East at the behest of the USA. Having a low military budget at this time made sense.

    Times have changed though. The geopolitical landscape looks different. The US itself is a possible threat, having stated invasion of Greenland was not off the table. Russia is a threat and even if they can’t convincingly beat Ukraine they can be a massive pain in the ass and an existential threat to the Baltic countries if NATO collapses.

    Yeah, we have to invest more in military. I don’t think things would have been massively different through most of the 2000s and 2010s even if the EU and the US weren’t close allies. Perhaps Russia would have been bolder earlier.










  • For 5g non-terrestrial orbital computing is used to reduce the amount of data that needs to be sent back to the ground, saving some of the rather precious bandwidth.

    For an example that I’m just pulling out my ass and probably doesn’t represent actual functionality, you don’t want a satellite to relay data that might be on the same bands as valid user data, but is not connected to a service subscriber. If you don’t identify and do this filtering locally on the satellite you end up needing to beam data dirtside where it will just be thrown out by the core network.

    I imagine AI will be used to filter data to be sent to earth from photos and such.