damn that's great news. Keep building them then!

That's a very accurate description of the current situation. Nasty comments in this thread are extra motivation to untangle this mess.

Cutting ties with US tech companies is one of the most important things the rest of us need to do these days.

The article's Karim Khan example pretty deeply undercuts the thesis. Losing access to your bank account is the actual coercive power. Losing a Microsoft email is an inconvenience in comparison.

The real 'military bases' are banks.

So what's the solution?

Monitoring of "hostile" workloads at datacentre scale is not going to work.

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