"We have to become independent from the United States. We are at war." In this very special episode I sat down with Raf Lefever and honestly, some of the stuff we talked about here kept me up at night thinking about it. So basically, we're diving into this whole mess about how Europe needs to break free from American tech companies, and Raf drops this bomb about how we're literally living under tech feudalism right now. Like, he compared cloud providers to drug dealers - which sounds crazy until you actually think about it and realize he's probably right. We're at war. Not with bullets, but with data, compute, and dependency. Right now a small group of tech CEOs in the United States effectively control the infrastructure the entire world runs on. Try pulling your data out of a major cloud provider sometime. You'll quickly realize you were never r ...