In 1840 news: blacks are bought and sold to work as slaves in Southern plantations.
Cynical aknowledgement of the world as it is never changed anything for the better.
Cynical aknowledgement of the world as it is never changed anything for the better.
Because we are all humans but we are not all the same, even though we all want to live in a democracy and want to accept everyone.
Right ?
Sure.
I could understand it for a country doing it for it's direct adversaries (e.g India and Pakistan and vice versa). That's what it was historically been connected to in any case.
I especially don't want a 10000-pound gorilla country with a constant history of war, imperialism and a racist feeling of "we are the chose country of God and a great experiment" doing it globally and using it for economic and military control.
So, no, I don't like Germany doing it. Or France. Or UK. Or China. Or Japan. And especially I don't like the big kahuna doing it.
a) We (my country and the US) are allies.
b) I may be less not ok with spying on high-ranking politicians. But any spying on companies and normal citizens is right out.