France is rolling out Visio, a homegrown secure videoconferencing platform, to all government employees by 2027.

The move aims to replace American tools like Teams, Zoom and Webex that currently fragment public administration communications and create security vulnerabilities.

The platform already has 40,000 regular users and is being deployed to 200,000 agents. Major institutions like CNRS are switching over this quarter, with CNRS replacing Zoom for its 34,000 staff and 120,000 affiliated researchers by late March.

Visio runs on French sovereign cloud infrastructure certified by ANSSI, uses AI transcription technology from French startup Pyannote, and will add real-time subtitling from French AI lab Kyutai by summer 2026. Beyond security and digital sovereignty, the switch generates real savings of about 1 million euros per year for every 100,000 users leaving paid license solutions.

Minister David Amiel frames this as essential to protecting sensitive government data and scientific exchanges from exposure to non-European actors while supporting French tech companies.

numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es… #France #Greenland #MAGA #DonaldTrump #tarrifs #France #Google #MicrosofTeams

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#Greenland #Minneapolis #ICE

It’s interesting to me that Trump has so quickly backed off on the threat of using force in Greenland. Someone talked him off the ledge. Maybe the massing European troops raised the stakes enough for his advisors to hesitate. Maybe the generals said they would not attack a NATO member nation (a clearly illegal order). Maybe he never had military support at all, and was talking out of his ass all along. Who knows? The point is, they called his bluff, and he folded like wet napkin. I think people need to learn from this. Calling Trump’s bluffs works, especially when you team up with other communities to call his bluff together.

#kakistocracy #greenland #davos

reuters.com/business/davos/det…

"The monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.

Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/s…

Sunday Comment Section Open 1/18/26

January 18, 2026

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"Trump’s foreign policy vision is not based on shared values, mutual defense, or democratic norms. It is based on leverage, punishment, and payment."

#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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"Donald Trump is not blowing up NATO by accident. He is not threatening tariffs on European allies because he is impulsive. And he is not floating bizarre new global bodies where nations pay billions for access because he suddenly cares about peace.

This is a strategy. A crude one, but coherent. And it is designed to replace alliances with tribute."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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saltypolitics.substack.com/p/t…

Trump's Latest Shakedown

The president just upped the ante

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}

"This post is bonkers on many levels. ...

The post also makes explicit that Trump is trying to use tariffs not to nurture the American economy but to force other countries to do his bidding."

I intend to punish, cow, and coerce you by taxing my own citizens.

#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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"In a long screed [yesterday] morning, Trump’s social media account said the president is placing tariffs of 10% on all goods from the countries currently protecting Greenland after February 1, and that the tariffs will increase to 25% on June 1."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

January 17, 2026

After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

The threat. Today’s cartoon by Anne Derenne. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/

#Greenland #Trump #USA #NATO

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After the US has sent a military plane to Greenland with bullet proof cars for driving around Usha Vance, Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen says:

“This is an unacceptable level of pressure from the US, and we will push back. […] The Americans cannot claim, this is a private visit, and no one can read this independently of the statements from them, on their desire to annex another country. […] The future of Greenland is defined by the people of Greenland and no one else.”

Source: DR
#greenland

#Trump outlined a vision of American #expansionism: building up our naval capacity, reclaiming the #PanamaCanal, & pledging to “get” #Greenland, “one way or another.”

He didn’t mention his aim to make #Canada the 51st state. But that may be because he doesn’t want to get into the horribly idiotic & disastrous #tariffs he placed on Canada & #Mexico today.