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Why "most expect"? Certainly there would have been greater focus on dictatorships/war zones? The target of websites found so far support this. I can understand

Why "most expect"? Certainly there would have been greater focus on dictatorships/war zones? The target of websites found so far support this. I can understand the desire to gather intelligence from every other nation, even allies. But I do believe it's a bad idea. E.g. Brazil seems to be aligning with China more and more... largely economic driven. But no need to also give it political backing.

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> I can understand the desire to gather intelligence from every other nation, even allies. But I do believe it's a bad idea. Intelligence agencies primarily spy on 'allies'. The biggest spy rings in the US are our "allies" - british, canadian, israeli, japanese, korean, etc. The biggest spy rings the soviet union had were in poland, ukraine, hungary, etc - aka their "allies". We have an infinitely larger spy ring in south korea than in north korea because holding onto an "ally" like south korea is far more important than converting an "enemy" like north korea. It's why we demanded all our "allies" stop using huwaei tech because it would prevent us from spying on our allies. It wasn't about china spying on our "allies". Who cares about that? It's about our ability to spy on them. The naive watch silly hollywood movies and think that's reality. Most of the spying during the cold war wasn't between the US and Soviet Union. It was mostly between warsaw pact "allies" and between NATO "allies". > Brazil seems to be aligning with China more and more... They should. Brazil's enemy is the US, not China. Might want to read up on the Monroe Doctrine. Think about it. The country that wants to keep brazil in check isn't china. It's the US. If Brazil has ambitions of being a major power, then it makes them our enemy and vice versa.

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Why "most expect"? Certainly there would have been greater focus on dictatorships/war zones? The target of websites found so far support this. I can understand

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> I can understand the desire to gather intelligence from every other nation, even allies. But I do believe it's a bad idea. Intelligence agencies primarily spy on 'allies'. The biggest spy rings in the US are our "allies" - british, canadian, israeli, japanese, korean, etc. The biggest spy rings the soviet union had were in poland, ukraine, hungary, etc - aka their "allies". We have an infinitely larger spy ring in south korea than in north korea because holding onto an "ally" like south korea is far more important than converting an "enemy" like north korea. It's why we demanded all our "allies" stop using huwaei tech because it would prevent us from spying on our allies. It wasn't about china spying on our "allies". Who cares about that? It's about our ability to spy on them. The naive watch silly hollywood movies and think that's reality. Most of the spying during the cold war wasn't between the US and Soviet Union. It was mostly between warsaw pact "allies" and between NATO "allies". > Brazil seems to be aligning with China more and more... They should. Brazil's enemy is the US, not China. Might want to read up on the Monroe Doctrine. Think about it. The country that wants to keep brazil in check isn't china. It's the US. If Brazil has ambitions of being a major power, then it makes them our enemy and vice versa.