When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore

Hartmann Report -   Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Putin’s been dreaming about for decades: he’s convincing our oldest and closest allies — countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government — that the United States can’t be trusted.

For example, France’s government just announced it’s ripping U.S. videoconferencing platforms — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others — out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called “Visio.”

That’s roughly 2.5 million French public employees who’ll no longer be using American digital products because the French have concluded that U.S. tech — and the Silicon Valley billionaires’ pathetic fealty to Trump, bringing him bribes and gifts and groveling in front of him — is a national security risk.

And it’s not just France: the German state of Schleswig-Holstein just moved 44,000 employees off Microsoft and over to an open-source platform, and is now considering replacing Windows with Linux. They also dumped Microsoft’s SharePoint file-sharing system, going with open source Nextcloud.

We’re no longer seen as a reliable partner: many of our former allies now view us as a potential enemy.  More