Where’s Europe’s answer to…any of this?

Europe's answer to that cancer? I guess not having it is the best one possible.

Oh yeah, Nokia, the company that made dumb phones a quarter of a century ago,

First, not "dumb phones", Java phones. As in phones running Java applications. Mostly very good ones. I'm not that young to not remember that time, so don't feed me this bullshit.

Second, they made a lot of other things. They were also a major contributor to QT.

They were sort of Finnish alternative to Samsung, one can say.

failed to enter the smart phone market at all,

That's historical revisionism. It had Symbian, it had Meego and Maemo. A certain Stephen Elop became its CEO after working at Microsoft, dismantled the company and then returned to Microsoft. The company was doing fine before that certain Stephen Elop.

disappeared, was sold to Microsoft as their phone/tablet division, failed again and disappeared again.

"Disappeared" is an interesting way to say this.

Ah Bosch, the makers of my pain in the ass why the fuck did they do it that way router. Particularly the standard base needs to be jawholed up someone’s lederhosen.

Well, they make nice lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners ... Or made. I dunno, don't have anything new Bosch.

German automobile manufacturers, whose motto seems to be “Never use a part when a system will do.” Expensive and complicated to maintain and not tremendously durable. Meanwhile the Japanese will sell you a war worthy compact pickup truck.

Today - certainly, 20 years ago they were the shit. Bureaucracy replacing competition and having markets fenced from competition do bad things to companies - whodathunk.

At what, exactly? The Austrians make better wine, the Italians make better food, the Germans make better cars, the Greeks make better spelling, the Swiss make better chocolate and the British make better television. And apparently the Canadians host better porn. From the news of the last few years, all France is apparently good for is rioting against its own government.

One Fabrice Bellard weighs more than all the mentioned. And rioting against your own government does that too.

In the column under “Type” the United States features search engines, video sharing platforms, social media, marketplaces, news, weather, software, email. Russia and China both feature news, email, social media.

In other words, social honeypots. I'm serious. I live in Russia, don't tell me about Russian news and social media, it's a vast junkyard of half-propaganda half-schizophrenia mossy crap, and people using those for purposes for which they could mostly as well use the 90s' piece of software called Hotline. And they should, I'm serious. And US search engines, video sharing platforms, social media and such are the same.

It's all one big broken dream of humanity, broken by its passions and entertainment and laziness.

Using the same approaches to human psyche that gambling businesses use, except gambling is held in its dedicated corners of society, while this shit has spilled everywhere.

These places sound like they’re trying to run a society,

That's an indicator of a war lost if someone is trying to centrally run your society with that much success. It's death, feeding with your remains probably in the future someone who hasn't lost that battle, or someone born from the ashes.