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The US is not going to interfere in 'Swede Corp' unless it's a serious issue of state security. Spottily could be worth $500B and they would not care. Recently Erickson took the spotlight as one of the few alternatives to 5G Huawei there was talk of US sate intervention but that might have been a good thing for them, otherwise, if they came to totally dominate 5G gear sales, again, the US wouldn't really have cared.

Nokia used to completely own mobile, Apple and Google game to dominate that but not out of a national strategy of some kind, although there are systematic artifacts of it behind the scenes.



Interestingly Spotify is playing relatively nice with the US in general, e.g: https://themusicnetwork.com/spotify-expands-us-operations-ad...

They also rely on GCP, and have a strong dependance on Apple and Google’s gardens, so their growing success is also tied to US firms.

Nokia is also in very good terms with the US gov: https://www.nokia.com/networks/us-federal-defense/


Spotify has barely any material relationship with the US Gov. and that they are closer to Apple and Google is normal.

Nokia might have some relationship with US gov. but that's also normal.

US Gov. will not interfere in most cases with things.

With energy security i.e. Petrodollar, yes, but usually it requires a 'problem' to surface i.e. chip shortage for them to take action.

The US benefits from 'open trade' - being the biggest economy i the world and fairly open, it usually means 'they win' so they're fine with it, they don't have to be protectionist or nationalist. 'Open' is a winning strategy for them in a way that it's not for say, Sweden or Columbia, which may have to have more selective national strategies.


State security is simply a facade that can be easily pulled up. For example speak to the French about this (Alston).




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