dmalteseknight

Well as a company bluesky, would need to abide by the laws of where it is offering it's services.

They can't just ignore the request of the country's government. They could either challenge it in court or stop offering their services altogether.

To be fair I don't think the russians would conceive of such a plan. Anyone who would suggest it would have been laughed out of the room.

Question would be how to track sales of said data outside of Italy.

I think they hate "the west" in general as the population can criticize and pressure those in power. Whereas dictatorships have unquestioned control.

In this case they should have been using government systems for internal transparency and opsec.

Ironically this scandal was caused by fools

Frankly I think Trump sees western nations not led by dictators as threats.

There are people who use tesla parts to make electric car conversions

Buy all the toilet paper

To be fair, Trump seems to be harsher on western allies than China.

I can already guess the excuse: "Europe started the war by not negotiating a peace deal with Russia when it came to Ukraine."

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