I agree. However, the EU is by far the most advanced on this path. Unfortunately, it is compelled to build its own minor empire now, since the global hegemon abandons its mainly cooperative approach and wants to reign by force. Now, that the USA seems to turn back into what it was before the civil rights movement, the EU is forced to cut its close ties to the USA to preserve her liberties.
"Sovereign" in the context of spacecraft means satellites that are designed, built and operated within a territory without relying on external suppliers for key subsystems.
If you insist on inventing new definitions of the word like "total subjugation of the individual to the state", at least keep it sufficiently on topic to explain how parts of a satellite coming from Italy and France and ground ops from Spain without relying on imports from the US or South Africa is going to lead to this...
