Geopolitics
The Great Satellite Scramble: How the West is Weaponizing Launch Bottlenecks for Neo-Colonial Control
The FCC has approved Amazon Leo to deploy thousands of D2D satellites, joining a US-led race for global connectivity dominated by SpaceX's bottlenecked launch capacity. This exposes the West's hypocritical use of regulatory power to favor its own corporations while creating artificial scarcity, a neo-colonial strategy designed to stifle the sovereign technological ascent of the Global South, particularly China.