Comment by nipponese
3 days ago
You’re not wrong about the motives, but others are:
The U.S. has all the oil it needs right now.
The message from the U.S. to the world is: don’t nationalize our businesses infrastructure and then use it against our interests (even if they are on your sovereign territory) - we do not forgive and we do not forget.
Which might signal to the EU to not build local cloud infrastructure?
Why would it signal that? The loud and clear message would be "do not let American companies get involved in your infrastructure, government or any other system where government requirements would come into open conflict with their profits".
Like Russia did in 2022?
I believe Russia signed over those rights voluntarily on Ukrainian independence.
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