This is known. The problem is that the EU is hooked on us technology. I don’t see this untangling soon which is a big strategic weakness
On top of that, the US can update it all remotely, including the hardware now thanks to things like intel ME.
Let's hope we never get into a conflict with them, because even without bombs, they can basically shut us down with a few keystrokes: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/the-eu-can-be-shut-down-with-a-fe...
Or at least have everything they need to develop such a capability. And it's not like the current people in power care much about alienating other countries.
I would absolutely love to see the EU invest in developing processors and operating systems. It'd benefit us all to have real competition in those spaces, and it's the only way the EU can ever keep their data out of the hands of the US government.
Let's not be excessively alarmist; AFAIK, the Intel ME is not (unless you're using things like vPro) exposed directly to the network, you need the cooperation of the operating system to reach the ME.
Of course, said operating system is usually Microsoft Windows, which can be updated remotely... (and even Linux users often use USA-based distributions).