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While another realist would point out that being caught spying on our fellow allies has seriously damaged our relations with them.

• biafra 12y ago
  Or not. Merkel doesn't seem to care much anymore. They probably knew this was happening. It was just embarrassing that suddenly the public also knew.
  • etrevino 12y ago
    Bingo, and if you think that they're not (trying to?) watch us, you'd be wrong.
• XorNot 12y ago
  That realist would be a fool who takes the exasperated statements of politicians at face-value. Were any long term trade agreements threatened? Embargoed in a way where they actually did it, not just talked about it? Was military cooperation withdrawn, diplomatic ties severed? Absolutely none of this happened. A lot of words happened. Mysteriously, for exactly as long as Snowden was in the news right up till Russia invaded the Ukraine.
• Amezarak 12y ago
  A realist would point our that our allies are also spying on us and the outrage is a facade being leveraged for political ends.