The phrase worth extracting from this address is short: cooperating with like-minded democracies so as not to be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers. It states compactly a problem most governments have not named, because the conventional framing of technology sovereignty concerns states, and this one puts corporate platforms in the same sentence as state powers. A country dependent on a small number of compute providers faces a structurally similar vulnerability that is rarely described that way. The proposed response is coalition rather than domestic substitution, which is realistic, since no middle power builds an alternative alone. The organising idea is variable geometry — different coalitions for different issues — and the most substantive claim links economic exposure to foreign policy directly: spreading trade and investment abroad is presented as the physical basis on which a state can afford to say what it thinks, since lowering how much a partner can hurt you is what makes a principled stand affordable.