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I use SMS/RCS. Not everyone uses Signal, and I won’t install WhatsApp.

But the US can impose a few inconviniences on you:

“You lose immediate access to all the main credit cards that go through the Swift system, which is controlled by the U.S.,” she said. “My Amazon and Google accounts were closed. You cannot pay for your utilities, your subscriptions. You’re completely crippled when it comes to booking hotels, trains, flights. You can’t buy dollars because your name is flagged.”.

It would need either a high voltage DC power line between the countries, or the electricity could be used to create hydrogen or ammonia and then ship that. There have been plans to create such power lines, e.g. Xlinks Morocco–UK Power Project (cancelled) and “Desertec 2.0” (very new proposal).

Maybe it will happen in the future, but for now these solar-rich countries probably want to use this energy for themselves.