Daily Take: What Happens When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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From France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can’t be counted on…
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| 1:00.1 | What happens when the world decides it can't trust America anymore? |
| 1:04.7 | Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, |
| 1:09.5 | something Putin's been dreaming about for decades. |
| 1:12.2 | He's convinced our oldest and closest allies, countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, |
| 1:18.4 | and with whom we share a democratic system, that the United States cannot be trusted. |
| 1:23.9 | For example, France's government just announced as ripping U.S. video conferencing platforms, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, and others out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called Vizio. |
| 1:38.4 | That's roughly 2.5 million French public employees who will no longer be using American digital products because |
| 1:46.5 | the French have concluded that U.S. tech and the Silicon Valley billionaires' pathetic fealty to |
| 1:52.8 | Trump bringing him bribes and gifts and groveling in front of him is a national security risk. |
| 1:59.4 | And it's not just France. |
| 2:08.3 | 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. |
| 2:14.6 | They also dumped Microsoft's SharePoint file sharing system going with |
| 2:18.8 | Open Source Next Cloud. We're no longer seen as a reliable ally. Many of our former allies |
| 2:26.4 | now view us as a potential enemy. Denmark's government, Swiss authorities, Austria, and other |
| 2:32.3 | European countries are exploring or implementing |
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