> Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir.

That's the summary from the article, and directly contradicts your point that they're snubbing all software.

Isn't this a good thing though? Europe becomes more self-reliant and less dependent on US technology, the US is able to refocus to the Pacific which is a more strategically relevant area, the anti-US people in Europe become happy, and the anti-Europe people in the US become happy.

It's not like tourism or cultural distance is going to disappear. All that disappears is the military entanglement, which to be honest, was mostly obsolete after 1991 anyway.