@edithmair1 Unfortunately the vulnerabilities that allowed this to become a problem in the first place will almost certainly remain even with those.
Consider the viability of a European credit card which cannot be used with any companies with a presence in the United States. So while it would make things better than they are, and is worth pursuing for that even if it's not a perfect solution, even a fully European card issuer would still almost certainly need to adhere to US regulations to some degree, and that includes US entity sanctions.
As for a European Amazon, I really don't think we need a huge, too-big-to-fail company copying a US behemoth. What we need is companies providing standardised services that can realistically be implemented in the same way by anyone without reliance on any one party, so that we don't end up with a hard dependency on just some other company instead. That would not be learning our lesson.
To help filters: USpol adjacent, EUpol adjacent.
