Just don't build it up only to let American or Israeli companies scoop up the technology for amounts immaterial to them.

I'm intrigued by this Telesat Lightspeed project. Telesat's been around forever, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a Canadian company is legit looking at deploying a LEO communications constellation with over a hundred satellites.

By comparison, Starlink of course has thousands, and it's unlikely the Telesat network would be offering to your door Internet anytime soon. Part of it is gearing towards military applications, but if I'm understanding it correctly, the civilian side involves providing backbone connections to remote communities. So say you live in a remote arctic village. You might get a single high speed connection which is then distributed across a local cellular network.

I don't believe it's worth it for USA to rock the boat by shutting down things when they can just surveil, manipulate, and sabotage unnoticed through their operating systems and social media used almost everywhere. With those they can keep countries vassal.

“Pre-emptive manipulation of society by nudge swarms around vigilant targets, as orchestrated by surveillance capitalist companies"
https://lemmy.world/post/52470551

"The Pentagon is quietly building an elite new tech sabotage agency"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/technology-support-office-dod-tech-spyware-sabotage-01100327