Do you not believe the rest of the world will not move in this direction to decouple from the US? If not, you should consider it is more likely than before. Countries will mandate it if they want it done badly enough, and there is enough open source to own the entire stack (OS, browser, CLIs, etc). It is simply a matter of will, resources, and time, in that order. "You eat an elephant one bite at a time" as the saying goes. Can it be done? Yes. Will it be done? We can only watch to find out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225112 (citations)

(sysadmin/network admin/devops/infra engineer a lifetime ago, mostly familiar with what bootstrapping this looks like)

> Do you not believe the rest of the world will not move in this direction to decouple from the US?

Sure, but that will require more than 20 people, 5 million USD and the sole will of the Iranian government.