Why would somebody trust AI with access to their production servers, and why would that person also not have remote database backups

I looked at that article and it quotes Trump as saying:

We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain

Surely this is a reason why Europe should unite in order to protect its interests. Imagine if the EU were to deny the Americans permission to use any EU air base for strikes on Iran. Would Trump then say “we’re going to cut off all trade with the EU”? It would be much more costly for the US economy if they were to cut off trade with the entire EU, rather than just one EU country.

Perhaps it’s possible that both the current governments of the US and PRC are doing immoral things. I think the US has a bit more political freedom though.

Maybe you mean high levels of ethnic minorities in US prisons, but I don’t think that’s the same as specifically persecuting Uyghurs in “education” centres where they are apparently raped and tortured.

Like I said, yes the US is flawed, especially their current government, but I still think the US government is not as oppressive as the PRC government. Another example of this is the recent sentencing of Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, seemingly only because he supported the democracy movement in the PRC.

The PRC, a one party state which puts ethnic minorities in internment camps, is better than the democratic USA, which AFAIK hasn’t put ethnic minorities in internment camps since WW2?

Of course the USA is a very flawed country, especially their current government, but it seems to me that the PRC is a pretty repressive regime with less political freedom than the USA.

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I was reading an opinion piece about this sort of thing earlier today, “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native”. It opens by saying:

I’m an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn’t trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money.

Well at least you’re not entering “Yes, do as I say!”

Damn they really are high on ideology aren’t they. They pretend to be anti-imperialism but they are pro-imperialism, as long as the imperialism is not western.

Lemmy.ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad will insist that any allegations of Chinese government wrongdoing are false slander, invented by evil western imperialists

I don’t know a lot about him and his positions. He seems more sensible than MAGA, but I guess that’s not difficult.

Apparently Newsom and Kamala Harris are currently polling the best to become the Democratic nominee in 2028. If you think Newsom is evil then okay, but I think he would be less evil than MAGA. Some people might hope for someone like AOC to be the nominee, but she seems to be polling worse.

Trump 2.0 is probably JD Vance. But I don’t accept the logic that a Newsom presidency would necessarily lead to Trump 2.0, a.k.a. Vance

Maybe people are wary of Russia because of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. And because of Russia’s poisonings of enemies (Alexei Navalny in 2020, Sergei Skripal in 2018, Alexander Litvinenko in 2006). And because of Russia’s many threats to nuke Europe (e.g. here).

The economic damage to Europe would be high if that were to happen. Also Europe wants to keep the US onside for defence cooperation.

In an ideal world, if Europe were all-powerful, I’m sure Europe would want to cut ties with the US as soon as possible.

Maduro seemed like a dictator to me, but I don’t know if unilaterally removing him from Venezuela by force is the best option. Ideally Venezuelans would decide for themselves who they want their leader to be.

Communism is supposed to be a left-wing position right? But I’m saying I’m not sure I would see China as properly leftist given their behaviour. Wanting to take external territory potentially by force seems imperialist to me, and I would see imperialism as a right-wing behaviour.

That link comes up with an error. Do you know which software it is that is/was in the universe repo?

the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately

Assuming Trump is rational. I’m not sure if he is.

As @stickly@lemmy.world pointed out, polling shows that Taiwanese people mostly want the status quo (de facto independence of Taiwan from the PRC) or they lean towards formally declaring independence.

As for Taiwan claiming sovereignty over China, maybe that is still in their constitution, I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure modern Taiwanese leaders are not asserting this claim. Instead they seek to preserve the status quo, where Taiwan is de facto independent.