[raesene9]

You've picked me up entirely incorrectly if you think I'm of the opinion that nation state actors are innocent.

My point is if the US treats foreign gov's as dangerous then those foreign gov's should treat the US as dangerous equally, including US software.

Given US software companies international sales volumes that's a massive existential threat to the US economy.

If China/Europ/Russia etc stop using US software products then what will happen to the profits of Microsoft/Google/Apple et al....

My other point was the apparent one-way nature of trust that I felt you were implying. that foreign gov's should trust US software whilst at the same time accepting those software companies do not trust them...