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If tiny Norway, which imposes no real threat to any other country, including it's mighty neighbor, Russia, is a target for intelligence services, then every cou
by petercooper 12y ago
If tiny Norway, which imposes no real threat to any other country, including it's mighty neighbor, Russia, is a target for intelligence services, then every country is a target.
Y'know, I've been more surprised at how surprised everyone else is. Maybe I put too much faith in James Bond and the whole spy cliché, but the reaction to the Wikileaks revelations surprised me because I'd assumed governments were doing those things to each other and their citizens anyway. I mean.. they were in the movies! ;-) (I'm not suggesting being blazé to it is a good thing, of course.)
- saraid216 12y agoThe reaction was that way because people are untrained in how diplomacy actually works. "Diplomatic action", to most people, is a matter of two heads of state going into a room and emerging with big smiles and a handshake. The fact that diplomats even communicate with each other at all is a revelation in and of itself to them.