The US has announced its AI Action Plan. Unfortunately, the US is behaving like the imperial USSR by proposing AI export packages as part of its AI Action Plan. This is a worse solution than the so-called tier 1-tier 3 system, which divides the world into purchasing categories.
Why?
1. “Export packages” as a tool for technological domination
Instead of selling individual components (e.g., chips, AI models, know-how), the US intends to:
- Deliver entire “AI full-stack packages” – i.e., infrastructure, software, security systems, data, service, and control,
- in an end-to-end model, where control remains with the supplier (similar to the F-35, where the customer country does not have complete freedom to modernize or integrate with other equipment).
This is not a classic free market – it is an addictive model of technology delivery in which:
- the seller (the US) retains technological superiority and strategic control,
- the recipient (allied countries) does not gain full independence or technological sovereignty.
2. Rhetoric of domination – the language of decree
Excerpt:
> “ensure that American AI technologies, standards, and governance models are adopted worldwide [...] to secure our continued technological dominance.”
This language is colonial in nature because:
- it does not refer to the “joint development,” “partnership,” or “digital sovereignty” of third countries,
- it assumes that the US will impose its own AI standards and governance models on other countries,
- it treats exports not as an exchange but as a means of projecting power and interests.
This strengthens ties by subordinating standards and controlling value chains.
3. Closed systems and transfer of added value
As in the Comecon or economic colonialism:
- the “colony” (read: client state) does not develop its own competencies because it buys ready-made systems,
- the full added value (R&D, production, software, service, training) remains in the “empire,”
- the recipient becomes dependent on updates, licenses, and technical support—just as in the case of military equipment or “black box” systems.
This means:
- transfer of capital and control from importing countries to the US,
- limiting the development of local AI sectors because it will not be profitable to create alternatives to the “full package.”
4. Geopolitical implications – division of the world into zones
This is not only an economic project, but also a geopolitical strategy aimed at:
- separating the “US sphere of influence” from China,
- establishing standards and technologies compatible only with US infrastructure,
- preventing independent countries from building their own sovereign AI ecosystems (with the exception of superpowers such as China, which are creating their own “imperial AI”).
In this sense, the world is to be divided into “technological blocs,” each operating according to the standards of the dominant empire—exactly the same model as during the Cold War, only with AI instead of oil, machines, or weapons.
5. The US has its GPU cards like NVIDIA. China has Huawei and other companies that have just announced further two alliances.
Nvidia has its CUDA, libraries. Huawei is trying to replicate this, also with its own Harmony OS for devices - from tvs to watches to smartphones.
Europe, unfortunately, has no GPU cards or systems.
6. The AI Action Plan should be read alongside a number of other documents.
The process of building a world based on peaceful cooperation between sovereign states is being halted by all empires. We are returning to a world dominated by empires. The overarching goal is to maintain US dominance over as much of the globe as possible.
This goal of “ensuring that American AI technologies, standards, and governance models are adopted worldwide to strengthen relationships with our allies and secure our continued technological dominance” is just one element of the strategy to rebuild dominance.
What's more, this is not the only document responding to the fact that the Americans have lost their neocolonial control over China and the EU. They want to rebuild it (and they have the tools to do so). They are acting exactly as all empires have done in the recent past.
The ideological basis is always the same thinking.
1) In the opinion of the British Empire, colonialism accelerated the development of the colonies, so this order must be maintained in the interests of the empire and the colonies.
2) In the opinion of the Soviet empire, the USSR fought for peace, and the nations of the empire were exploited by the member countries of the Comecon. The collapse of the Comecon was the result of Western aggression. It is time to rebuild the sovereignty of the brotherly countries.
3) Trump also emphasizes that the PRC and the EU are robbing the US and that this must end. The US must occupy Greenland because it will contribute to its prosperity and is part of the American mission to defend the free world.
When the colonial system collapsed, they tried to maintain it in part through the Commonwealth (but they did not have the tools—the Americans were interested in taking over their power).
When the USSR collapsed, the CIS was formed and they are rebuilding their sphere of influence by all means available (the army and fossil fuels).
The Americans are in the process of reconstructing the Bretton Woods system, which established Western dominance.
This is the shortest possible justification for the thesis – we must adapt our policy to the new realities of this world. The EU knows that the euro and the entire EU will be attacked until it collapses. This is the strategic goal of both empires.
The announced program will control “Altana GPT” type transactions and may not allow individual purchases.
7. Fossil fuel dominance
The AI Action Plan favours the purchase of traditional energy sources for data centres - gas, oil, coal, nuclear.
RES are even discriminated against
-- Piotr Mieczkowski
VP, EAIF
MD, FDP
BM, KIGEIT