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I honestly think the EU should make it clear that our friendship with the US cannot be uphold with serious breaches such as this one. Its your good friend spyi
by oellegaard 13y ago
I honestly think the EU should make it clear that our friendship with the US cannot be uphold with serious breaches such as this one.
Its your good friend spying on your and your wife having sex, not because he needs to, but because he wants to know everything. With countries or persons, you can only be true friends if you trust that you are told what you need to know, you shouldn't have to acquire information yourself.
- _k 13y agoMeanwhile the EU thinks it's a good idea to negotiate a new EU - US trade agreement. And it's a good idea, but not when one side is spying on the other. They should place it on hold.
- antocv 13y agoEU is also spying on US, it just hasnt turned into a scandal yet. Its not out of malice or intent to hurt the other party, its just pure power, information is power. Who knows most at the negotiating table wins.
- black4eternity 13y agoThen it's not a negotiation between friends interested in mutual growth. I agree information is power. But there are limits to power. Trust also matters.
- hwh 13y ago"The EU" is probably not spying, it simply doesn't have institutions to do so. The EU lacks "federal" agencies in the security service sector, that's still a matter of the EU member nations with cooperation only on a bureaucracy level.
- kalms 13y agoCitation? And no, France is not "EU".
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoThis is just misplaced indignation. As long as there have been countries, even friendly nations have conducted espionage against each other. Give me a break.
- epo 13y agoThe US isn't 'friends' with anyone, except in the Facebook sense of "I've heard of you".