the trade deficit is rather small though and France could easily make up for it through additional taxes.

funny how people feels supportive of some companies based on very loose national links. If you think companies have a national interest at heart (I will make an exception for Chinese), I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you.

Imagine if Airbus was not there, there would be no safe plane to do short-haul.

Nonsense. Plenty of 717, non-Max 737, MD-88, MD-90, and E170/175/190/195 out there.

Now, tech is a bit like pharma. The big companies work like investment funds and buy any promising upstart to maintain an oligopoly.

after decades in Silicon Valley, I think that execution matters much more than the idea. Uber was not alone, Amazon was not the only bookstore, Google was not the only search engine.

You need to think of ideas about better execution (including the idea to focus on execution in the first place) as ideas.