It’s a secondary point, but sure,

It’s a widely common practice:

France had kill switches in its export Exocet missiles - why wouldn’t the US have also kill switches in its export equipment?

It would actually be strange if they were absent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ui54r7/france_urged...

Interesting how you demand evidence for technical claims while making sweeping political statements without any.

Speaking of speech control - how many Russian journalists have mysteriously fallen out of windows recently? …or is evidence only required for Western claims?

> Illiberal democracies start with suppression and control of speech. Which is core to the EU regime currently.

Really?

The EU limits explicit calls to violence, genocide denial, and coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Meanwhile, Russia imprisons people for holding blank signs, China censors Winnie the Pooh, and Hungary closed its last independent radio station.

Don’t you think your standards for what free speech is could be slightly different, depending to whom they apply?