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I don't like all the 'us against them' rhetoric going on. All that European alternatives talk is not much better than America first.

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It's a geopolitical reality. Not liking the 'us against them' mentality is fair enough, I agree with that, but we can't be blind to what's happening around us.

Also, I do think that there's benefit to opting for EU products, as they are generally more 'consumer-rights' friendly than the US alternatives.

Most of the articles I read about this is about showing that going all-European is possible at all. If that feels like it’s an us vs. them thing, I’m not sure how I could change your mind.

Thanks. You don't need to convince me much. I was curious to post a more controversial comment. It's my specific perspective, we run a small hosting business: German company running on American infrastructure (AWS), serving a global customer base. This is much harder to defend these days. We really don't need 'US against them' or 'EU against them'. I am writing a blog post about it.

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