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1. Zigurd · 1789669442 · focus · HN ↗

   The US administration created at least 90% of what we now call technology sovereignty concerns. Technology sovereignty is front and center in this announcement. Before the president started making wildly inappropriate remarks about grabbing territory from allies and other previously unthinkable utterances, almost everyone was happy to buy technology from US hardware and software vendors. Complacency about the state of democracy and rule of law in the US was the norm.

   Why does this matter? Markets outside the US account for about half of many US technology vendors' revenue. Who is going to speak up first?

   1. FlowingRiver · 1789695901 · focus · HN ↗

      While others have made good points, your view is also valid. The messaging nowadays is more toward sovereignty even if the core direction hasn't fundamentally changed significantly.

      I do find it funny how the harder some folks push for an outcome, the more they bring about the opposite effect.

      I mean the US had this sense of confidence that they were at the top of the power structure, it was widely accepted and overall that position and deal seemed to benefit many others even if not to the same scale. For example with Europe, the US got favorable trade terms in exchange for defense.

      Then the Trump administration came in and started pushing the narrative of MAGA, to almost be professional victims. Winner of the world lottery and yet still not happy. And so instead of making America Great again, they are on the fast track of being cut out of favorable global trade. They over played their hand. And once others end up being self sufficient again, it is very difficult to get back in the good books.

      In trying to avoid being pushed around, they are now starting to see they could be pushed around.

      1. Lumich · 1789715825 · focus · HN ↗

         « For example with Europe, the US got favorable trade terms in exchange for defense. » — It is occupation under the guise of defense, always has been. Keeping Germany divided for 35 years (when it could have become neutral and free in the early 50s), eager not to release control but to expand east instead, exploiting disunity, instigating the Yugoslavia wars of the 90s, more recently the Ukraine war (which goes back more than a decade in preparation).

         1. jech · 1789742809 · focus · HN ↗

            You mean the only people innocent are the Russians?

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