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"the US have become hostile to Europe." 1. I don't believe that anything changed in recent months/years other than the US repeating the statement that maybe EU
by bboygravity 2y ago
"the US have become hostile to Europe."
1. I don't believe that anything changed in recent months/years other than the US repeating the statement that maybe EU should take care of its own defense. Not exactly a new sign of "becoming hostile" IMO.
2. If this would even be true then they have always been hostile to Europe and only just recently started becoming honest and open about it (but again, I dont see any sign of actual change). Five eyes, NSA, etc is not exactly new and have super obviously been used and are still being used by the US to do economic and political espionage on Europe for at least decades. The leaked news of NSA spying on German chancellor Angela Merkel's phone is like 10+ years ago by now?
My opinion is that every EU company that uses Onedrive, Teams, Outlook, Google etc (99 percent of them is my guess) are basically paying to give away their trade secrets to their US competitors. "but the terms of the contract say..." yeah right...
- graemep 2y agoIts just become harder to stick European heads in the sand. Is government agencies to. In the UK the NHS uses AWS, courts use Teams.... IT security is just ignored - its only recently that it occurred to the govt to remove Chinese cameras from sensitive sites. European militaries are heavily dependent on the US too and have a lot of equipment that is reliant on US supplies or can only be used in line with agreements with the US.
- apples_oranges 2y agoPlus apparently there are things that only USA can currently do, awacs radar support and other recon I think
- ojl 2y agoI believe there are several non-US awacs systems out there, although the American ones are probably the most common.
- apples_oranges 2y agoThey have alienated their allies for sure and this time it seems different and it seems that it will have a lasting impact. Including for tech companies.
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- palata 2y ago> Not exactly a new sign of "becoming hostile" IMO. It feels like you missed the hostile actions. There are many, but let's just mention the fact that the US repeatedly threatened to invade militarily.