Schoolyard bully justifications do not a great nation make. Especially when that nation is the worlds #1 committer of human rights abuses and supporter of genocide^Wmass murder at heinous scale.

Who are you talking about exactly? Germany? US? Russia? Britain? China?

All have these agencies. All could/did meet your other criteria now or at different recent periods.

Overall, why should they give a shit what you think on the topic either?

The USA of course. Who else is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and insane human rights abuses at the same scale, this century? No other nation has given itself carte blanche to mass murder as fervently as the USA and its minion states in the 5-eyes coalition of the 'willing'.

As for giving a shit, those who allow themselves to be wilfully ruled by war criminals always become their final victim, so you should give a little more than a shit, yo.

Russia. Russia has. Oh, and China (if you count domestic ‘issues’ like Muslims).

And if you count the last 100 years, not just 20ish then Germany has a lot of notoriety on that front, as does Russia.

Frankly, they both make the US look like total amateurs.

No, you've got this entirely backwards. The USA and its allies have murdered more innocent people this century than any other nation, by a long, long margin.

How easily Americans forget that they massacred 5% of Iraqs population in cold blood, and then proceeded to wreak havoc in countless other states in the region.

And then, there's the human rights violations. No other nation violates human rights at massive scale like the USA and its minions. By a HUGE scale.

If you aren’t spying, you’re BEING spied on. Germany of all places shouldn’t be claiming any moral high ground on mass murder and human rights abuses.

Germany is a modern-day contributor to the mass violations of human rights, war crimes, and human rights abuses of the Western hemisphere, as a lackey state of the USA.

Eh, or you’ll get spied on regardless - might as well have some clue what others are doing too, so you don’t get blindsided as badly.

No matter how much everyone sings kum-ba-ya, nations have too many important reasons to spy, and very few real reasons not to. Even on allies.

‘Trust but verify’, eh?