Europe Can't Defend Democracy on US Servers

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Australia is too far gone and so a meaningful partnership there would be extremely unlikely.

Almost all federal government agencies are on M365 in some capacity, with most having gone all in. State and territory agencies are similar, as is the corporate world.

It's pointing to the ongoing western European government efforts to replace Windows with Linux, first with servers going off Outlook/Azure for security reasons, and then the clients for monetary reasons. The windows 11 upgrade desaster, which caused everyone to consider switching to Linux.

If you look at the European map, what backends the governments are using, only the poor eastern countries still are on Windows, the rest already switched. Also Russia is off, China is off, only a few are still on the US spyware.

It also pointed to "Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, India, and others" as potential partners. I pointed out that Australia is far too deeply in bed with Microsoft to be a realistic candidate.

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