For an European perspective the U.S. Cyber Strategy document just reinforces what we already knew: we need to decouple ourselves from U.S. technology, especially in critical areas. The Trump administration has already been using sanctions against foreign undesirables (like the ICC) as a way to abruptly cut them off from their U.S.-based Cloud services. The new document just outlines more direct ways for the U.S. to attack its new perceived enemies: democratic nations around the world.

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The document also describes how kinetic military action will be a part of the toolkit for countering cyber threats. Based on past performance of the Trump administration they can conjure such cyber threats out of thin air if necessary. Additionally the U.S. will use offensive cyber attacks againsts its adversaries, whether real or imagined.

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The strategy part talks about being better prepared against state level (military and intelligence) adversaries and criminals in the cyber space. Traditionally a state-level adversary would have been some undemocratic country such as Russia or China. However, the current U.S. administration is able to to create adversaries out former democratic allies, such as Canada, Greenland and Denmark and most recently Spain. All this while flirting with authoritarian countries.

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The Cyber Strategy document also talks about U.S. allies. By that it probably refers to NATO partners and Indo-Pacific allies. The problem is that these countries now consider U.S. an adversary and are allies in name only. To name a few reasons: Trump's tariff wars, threats to invade Canada and Greenland, attempts to destabilize the EU by funding European far-right parties and the illegal war now conducted by the U.S. in Iran.

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