Isn't it public info that the USA has backdoors in every CPU (IME for example), or that NSA collects literally every piece of data going to and from USA, or that the USA illegally spies on its allies in the NATO by tapping phones and transcontinental internet cables? Or that trump literally called for Snowden to be executed for making all of that public?

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Illegally? No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other's dissidents. Just because the US has gone off the rails doesnt mean the EU was innocent.

[–] bobo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other's dissidents

Ah yes, well known dissidents like

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Angela Merkel and other EU officials

Meanwhile in Denmark

In August 2020, Trine Bramsen who was recently appointed Danish minister of defence in June of the previous year was told of the operation, following which agency head Lars Findsen and three other officials were suspended.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer