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Interesting attempt at an explanation, but pretty far off the mark. Start with, everybody spies on everybody. Do you think Russia spies on the United States?[1
by unreal37 13y ago
Interesting attempt at an explanation, but pretty far off the mark.
Start with, everybody spies on everybody. Do you think Russia spies on the United States?[1] You bet it does. Or tries to.
The US just has gotten very good at spying. Better than any other nation right now. They have unlimited resources to spy with, while most European countries don't spend their money on that.
Every few years (as this year 2000 article shows), the US gets caught spying on its friends, and has to scale that back a bit and apologize. But almost every country has a foreign intelligence unit, and they're not very good.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman
- coldtea 13y ago>Start with, everybody spies on everybody. Do you think Russia spies on the United States?[1] You bet it does. Or tries to. Only it doesn't matter much. Back in the USSR days it mattered. Nowadays, what would Russia, a not that powerful country do with it's spying? Not much. Whereas the top dog, with the resources it has available, and the breadth of it's spying, it uses it for tons of stuff (mostly grabbing resources for cheap, ensuring friendly lackeys are in government everywhere it can, etc).