There’s no way he isn’t compromised by at least Russia and probably Israel. Or did Iran hack his files and find the dead boy in his closet and the bombing damaged their ability to expose him.
Europe’s record really isn’t very different, but maybe they got it out of their system after WW2, India (Britain), Vietnam (France), Argentina (France & Britain)Bosnia, most of Africa, Kosovo.
Even if local models are good, the big companies are making local computing more expensive than cloud tokens by colluding with ram and storage makers to restrict supply.
The rest of them are pyros. But fun to hang out with.