Not the US but the Dutch state is the problem here.
The powers that be know that US espionage is not only limited to some emails and also entails sophisticated industrial espionage and never cared.
Now "suddenly" they want to do something about it.
This is Not about Dutch interests / sovereignty - we need to find out what it really is about.
Reputation is subjective and subject to abuse. You need cold hard facts. Intelligence.
Also, don't talk BGP to people you don't know and don't forget to maintain your human network.
Your regional RIR can help with this.
Reading "xiaomi"in the headline I was thrilled to see MiMo only to find out it's NOT this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO
What a disappointment!
It's still a wise idea to take it seriously.
Many years ago, a then 17 y/o old ( German ) friend of mine did mitm on his own console in order to replace a video stream in ps home, recorded it for youtube/laughs.
Not much later he was SWATed by the german police as if he was some kind of terrorist. His parents got a heart attack. Next he received financial death threats from a ultra expensive UK based law firm send by Sony.
You don't give a stranger the keys to your house but we run their code every day.
This is wrong regardless of there being surveillance present.
We all know where it went wrong and can't say we did not know.
Cloudflare is a clandestine intelligence operation run by a rogue nation. Just like spamhaus and many other firms that have ridiculous amounts of illegitimate and unchecked power.
XMPP was the first creep towards the bullshit of today. Unlike IRC, it makes you register, leak identifiers, centralise and transfer power over you to third parties. Exposing you to lawfare, downtime and wasted resources. Also, IRC is extendable.
It can help it setup but it should not because its better at being the place where you click on a solution for everything else you just mentioned being down.
Its a cheap low noise and highly available fallback.
Those "idle" channels of the past actually served a serious purpose.
Because v6 IPs are cheap, expendable and routing it over encrypted tunnels does not look suspicious. Anyone can buy a block and with little help announce them from multiple locations including home, mobile, uni wifi, and route further from there.