Unfortunately yes, and its the US that has choosen to do it. Its up to everyone else to recongise that it has already happened, or suffer the consequences if they choose not to respond.

Just to be clear: the US has already done this.

All we can do is face the facts and pick up the pieces.

>Should we throw away 80 years of trade, cooperation, and the resulting prosperity and go back into ridiculous tribalism?

The US is already doing that, pretending otherwise is just hopeless naivete.

The folks who won those 80 years and remember what it took and what was before are all but gone now. Not a coincidence.

"weak men create hard times" is actually somewhat correct, just not in the way maga thinks.

the same folks that presided over catastrophic global warming, animal cruelty at industrial scales and human inequality i presume. maybe we can wind those back now theyre gone?

Global warming is the only net new thing on the list and it pays for itself if we get to fusion or planet scale solar. If we don’t, we’re back to the stone age either way.

Probably yes at least to a certain level. At the moment to many countries are relying too heavily on a single point of failure, there should be independent alternatives so that is possible to have more and better competition and in case the administration of the current single point of failure goes nuts it's possible to switch over to something else.

Supporting local & international chip making, building data centers & driving access to PCs, and most crucially funding and using open source!

Which thankfully amazingly might happen!!! https://www.techerati.com/news-hub/eu-pushes-for-open-source...

Yes!

Cooperation does not rhyme with exceptionalism and patriotism. You learn that school, it's not a recent thing.

And all the US leaders are united in fascism: denying worker rights, slave economy, and private contracts trumping national laws and regulations.

> And all the US leaders are united in fascism: denying worker rights, slave economy, and private contracts trumping national laws and regulations.

It's not "all the US leaders" and those are quite a small fraction of "all of the US". Then, despite some similarities, it's not "fascism" either. I mean, seek friends, don't create enemies.

I see a lot of Europeans here have written the US off which is a huge mistake... I'd say, you fell for the trick.

Don't forget to take a careful look at your own EU leaders and beware of your own nationalism, you (the EU) are definitely one of the actors in this theater. I'd say, study history, look around your own backyard, think, it's not as simple as it seems.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to diversify email or other digital services, but this is still a technical solution to a political problem - a temporary patch at best, useless for any meaningful stretch of time.