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TechTechTech10 days ago
If the ICC gets sanctioned there will probably be a big boost in EU companies leaving USA services for good. Many are already very seriously talking about it, but need to be 'pushed' a bit more.

The previous ICC sanctions started a lot of discussion in the EU. For example, people loose not only access to Microsoft services but also bank/credit card (Visa is USA). https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-cr...

EU is slow, but poke it enough and it will leave USA services (and then never come back). For example, Nextcloud can substitute MS365, ICC itself did so after the previous sanctions: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/international-criminal-c...

mytailorisrich10 days ago
The EU has become ever more dependent on the US in the past few years, notably on energy and AI.

There is a lot of noise on what you mention but the reality is rather different.

disgruntledphd210 days ago
> The EU has become ever more dependent on the US in the past few years, notably on energy and AI.

Energy yes, particularly since the Iran war started. AI, not really. Like most Europeans are using US models, but the switching costs are so low here that they could easily swap these out for Chinese models.

It's the cloud/hyperscaler dependencies that are the real problems here.

croes10 days ago
Maybe we shouldn’t act like the US aren’t dependent on the rest of the world. Let’s look at US debt
illiac7869 days ago
Mostly agree, but

> Nextcloud can substitute MS365

What? I hope that’s a joke. (I run/admin Nextcloud instances)

metalman10 days ago
the trump/epstien zionist cabal is starting to feel the heat, and I for one hope the bastards fry for there mindless genocidal crimes, though there many other crimes need to be addressed in due course as well. what these dumb fuck monsters cant grasp is that no matter which way they turn they will face insurmountable problems that no amount of AI and bombing soft targets will save them from.

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