I’m also doing my best to actively steer the company I work for as far away from US Tech as possible. Out of principle at first, but it turns out it’s cheaper in the long run.

That’s… how you build stronger cloud services?
Using EU cloud providers gives them the financial muscles to build stronger services. I’m moving everything I can to EU services, even if that means that I have to pay a little extra for it, or get slight worse services because I want them to be able improve. I will however shop between EU providers so that I get the best value for money. I’m not an idiot.

They are only “weaker” because they are smaller. European cloud services can be just as capable as US ones, it just needs investment to build up the infrastructure.

Too many companies and public institutions in Europe have allowed the US monopolies to get away with their practices here. For example: letting Microsoft bundle so many products into Windows and Office 365 at a loss to build vendor lock in and stifle competition. Letting google push Chrome aggressively to users of other browsers who just want to use their search. Letting Facebook buy Instagram and not regulating the social media monopolies.

These are all choices that reflect the poor state of Europe. We’ve allowed US companies to come in and exploit Europe. That also continues in the EU with companies avoiding tax by basing themselves in Ireland and charging their operations in other countries franchise costs.

Europe tolerated all this because there was an idea that it was balanced out in other ways with the US, and this was what free trade is. Trump has made clear assumptions over all Europes relationship with the US is not equal, and we really need our anti-trust bodies to get back to doing what they used to do to protect European citizens.

Remember when the EU forced Microsoft to give users a choice of web browsers? More recently The EU has done some work on forcing Apple to open it’s appstore / payment system to competition but it’s done next to nothing about Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Windows, Google Search, Google Chrome, or Meta & Twitter/X. I hope European politicians follow their words with actions.

Fragmenting the world order and substantially weakening both the US economy and international relations is actually the entire point of the Trump presidency. If you want the plan outside of project 2025; just play his campaign promises and hear the opposite.

And by Germany, we mean the world.

Meanwhile, the bavarian state government has made another 5 billion € deal with microsoft for the next 5 years.

I believe that they say that, I do not see them act accordingly.

It’s pretty clearly a national security issue. All American companies are compromised to Israel and anti democratic oligarchs

What is a fully US independent search engine?

Everything is new at some point. They aren’t weaker for long if you keep pouring enough money into it.

So say well all