The best way to protect freedom and democracy is of course to implement totalitarian surveillance. Wait, you don't like it? Sounds like you have something to hide.

Let's have a world war against palantir and supporters.

The Netherlands has been so pro USA for years, they will do anything the US tells them and they will use any trendy tech that comes from there. One single local government in the Netherlands doesn't rely on us infrastructure. The Dutch tax office decided to sign a deal with Microsoft this year after all the talk about sovereignty.

The US told the dutch government to stop ASML from selling their lithography machines to China and the the Netherlands just bowed down and kissed their toes. ASML was forced to exclude China. The US said "no more Huawei only USA" and the Netherlands reported it as "Huawei is evil, we must trust USA".

The Netherlands even has a healthcare system with deductibles (not the entire thing is like the US healthcare system luckily).

If the US said "Netherlands, become the 51rst state" there'd be a countrywide celebration.