> Now I like Anthropic and I'm a very happy paying Google customer: can we please just ditch Microsoft and not the entirety of products made by american companies? Microsoft produces shit but it's not the case of every american company.

That's not what this debate is about. Sovereignty implies that the country keeps running when a hostile company owning the software decides it doesn't want that to happen. The incident with the ICC / ICJ judges investigating Gaza attacks and against Israel resulting in them personally sanctioned by Trump's administration was the wake-up call.

Rule of law in software doesn't exist anymore (when the software is in US' proprietary hands), and that's the threshold that has been crossed and is non negotiable.