> But there's a reason that the cold war didn't turn hot, and in part it was because the major powers, US and Russia, were able to set formal and informal inter

> But there's a reason that the cold war didn't turn hot, and in part it was because the major powers, US and Russia, were able to set formal and informal international standards for intelligence, espionage and data collection, for themselves and for their allies. It didn't turn hot because of mutual destruction threat.