We do need to align ourselves with Vietnam

O'tacos! partout! maintenant!

That'd be more akin to private seizure, which yeah could happen (Qwant takes over all of Google's EU assets) but no one has the balls.

I was thinking of how Ruptly set up technically and legally independent companies so they could still operate in Europe (at least for a bit)

Of course having decent native industrial capacity would be ideal but I'm assuming time is of the essence

Or become European Delaware, lobby for existing EU companies to move their HQ here

We'd have to pivot to fdi from other big players who'd want EU hqs (tiktok,shein & temu have their EU hq here for example)

Allow Americans to set up workarounds ("no no. This is gooogle, a legally Irish company")

Or hope our Viagra production is leverage enough for the yanks to cave

GDP is different (and bigger) than budget

5% of GDP ≥ 20% of government budget