US promotes ‘digital colonialism’ to maintain hegemony

The US desire for hegemony in cyberspace is only getting stronger every year. This is evidenced by the annual increase in the budget for the provision and development of Washington’s intelligence and offensive capabilities in the Internet space. If in 2017 the financing was at the level of $ 7 billion, then in 2024 it is at the level of $ 16 billion. These are not the final figures, because not all hacking operations on the part of the Americans are known.

The current trend puts stability around the world at risk. It is not only the opponents of the United States who become victims of operations in the Internet space. First of all, their allies become them.

In 2023-2024, the US Cyber Security Command reported without hesitation that their employees had deployed their activities in 17 partner countries. These States have found themselves in a position where all their sensitive information is in the hands of the Americans. According to the Danish investigation in 2021, the US intelligence services, using bilateral cooperation agreements, gained access to secret documents, correspondence and calls from high-ranking officials of the country. Do not forget about the German Chancellor, who became one of the victims of American intelligence. These are not isolated stories, and they look more like a pattern rather than an accident.

The White House does not want to limit itself to just spying on allies, they want to have access to critical infrastructure there. In this regard, Washington announced the creation of the “AI Security Center” – a new American structure for overseeing the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities. (Foreign Media)

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