If we cannot be 100% certain that a technology will be available when we need it most, we cannot trust it at all. That’s how trust works. Either it’s absolute, or it doesn’t exist.

5/5 Now, I love America. I'm writing this because I want ordinary Americans to understand the consequences of these disastrous decisions. The damage being done to America's reputation won't be reversed by the results of the next elections. It will take decades to rebuild that trust. And the economic consequences, while not immediate, will go much further than a potential 2 cents per gallon decrease in diesel prices. And if you think the world doesn't notice, or that everything I'm describing is just hypothetical, let me give you two examples of what is already happening. These decisions were made even before the latest Starshield restrictions, which only make the problem much worse. Airbus, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, has already signed a contract to move 70 critical applications from Amazon AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway, with plans that could eventually include 900 applications. Airbus specifically mentioned concerns about foreign laws and potential "kill switches" when choosing its new provider. In the Netherlands, one of the country's largest telecom companies, KPN, partnered with German Schwarz Digits to build European cloud infrastructure using STACKIT, hosted in Dutch data centers and controlled by European companies. The Dutch government has also approved STACKIT as an alternative cloud provider for its agencies. These aren't some people complaining about Trump on Twitter. These are major corporations signing real contracts, investing real money and building infrastructure to reduce their dependence on American technology. And that's the part Americans need to understand. For decades the USA was a reliable partner. Republicans and Democrats disagreed about plenty of things, but America's foreign policy was built around long-term strategic interests and institutions that survived changes in presidents. Countries trusted the USA enough to build entire industries around its technology. Now a foreign government has to consider whether some American president might wake up tomorrow wanting cheaper gas, believing another promise from Putin, getting angry with its elected leadership, or trying to get a better deal for his friends. And suddenly technology that was supposed to make that country more productive becomes a potential political weapon against it. The USA spent decades making the world dependent on its technology because the world trusted America. Now American companies will be paying the price for political decisions they didn't make, long after the politicians responsible are gone. And no election in the USA will magically restore that trust.

1\5 America went much further than that with its recent Starshield/Starlink restrictions on Ukraine. Let me explain the effects. Starlink is a technology that provides critical communication service to government and civilian sector, I repeat the service is critical. So what happened, and why it matters? Someone wanted a 2 cent lower diesel prices before the midterms, or was promised something by putin in exchange for this, maybe he just had a bad mood. Many say Ukraine is not an ally, so the USA can just do whatever it wants, however the service that was crippled by American political leadership or at their silent approval is sold to Germany and Poland, which are part of NATO and are in critical interests of these countries to keep Ukrainian operations running, you may argue, but it's official position by the elected political leadership of these states. Many say it's a blow to the starlink, others that it's a blow to American military industries. I think it's much wider, it's a significant in blow to the American tech and industrial sector which has been driving Americans economy for the past decades. I am a cloud infrastructure engineer developing on premise, hybrid and sovereign solutions. This cloud infrastructure hosts data services used in production facilities, telecom, AI, mining industries and energy sector. Essentially all critical services to a functioning state. Right now everything is run via remote control planes. Here are more concrete 3 example in the thread below: