No thanks. We as individual Europeans should depend as little as possible on US services. And our society as a whole should also try to minimize its dependency on US tech. The US government is openly committing war crimes against its enemies already. Why would they hesitate to make use of their tech kill switch if it ever seemed benefitial to them? Trump doesn’t care about promises or contracts, he’ll fuck you over the moment he can benefit from it.
the world’s richest man also cut off Ukrainian access to starlink when Ukraine initiated a counter offensive against Russia. the oligarchs that form the US military industrial complex can, will, and have used their positions of leverage to influence geo-politics
Remember how they disabled all the online services for the judge from the International Criminal Court because Trump didn’t like her and put her on the sanctions list like a terrorist? Email, gone. Google account, gone. Credit cards, gone. (https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions)
No thanks. We as individual Europeans should depend as little as possible on US services. And our society as a whole should also try to minimize its dependency on US tech. The US government is openly committing war crimes against its enemies already. Why would they hesitate to make use of their tech kill switch if it ever seemed benefitial to them? Trump doesn’t care about promises or contracts, he’ll fuck you over the moment he can benefit from it.
the world’s richest man also cut off Ukrainian access to starlink when Ukraine initiated a counter offensive against Russia. the oligarchs that form the US military industrial complex can, will, and have used their positions of leverage to influence geo-politics