France Drops Palantir From Intelligence Ops Over US Dependence Fears
🛡️ PARIS — France's spy network just cut the American cord, mid-crisis. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Lecornu naming US dependence as the threat — not Russia, not Iran — reframes G7 alliance optics mid-MOU window. Palantir processes intelligence metadata; replacing it means French intel runs degraded for months. For Rome and Berlin, this is a template question: who holds your data if Washington pivots? Expect Brussels to accelerate EU sovereign cloud mandates.
