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?