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Originally Posted by Catfish
True .. but the scope of this new spying is a completely different animal.
And you seem to thoroughly underestimate the impact on the rest of the non-anglo-saxon world, or better the view towards this kind and scope of spying.
Yes all do now know you give a sh.. about that rest, but this does not really change their view. For some this kind of behaviour is still lower than prostitution. Not to insult the latter  |
I think the second part is a slight mistranslation anyway I think I understand what you meant to say.
It seems to be that for some time the Anglo-Saxon has been in control of the world for some time most likely because espionage over the ages along with military power has allowed it to be that way.Why you think that another would not do the same is hard for me to fathom.China who long ago was a great power and was also at the time far ahead of Europe used espionage extensively Sun Tzu said that effective spying was a key element in maintaining power he never once said a thing about playing fair.Other states if they had the resources would be no different the the US or Ancient China or Nazi Germany or the USSR.
The entire idea of espionage is to of course to know what is happening behind the scenes in a place to which one is not permitted openly to know the sought information.
I never said that it was right or wrong merely that a state or similar organization spying,snooping what have you on your has always been around.
The way I see it the technology has changed true but in the past states have had very strong control over their own people Nazi Germany and the USSR are two excellent examples of sates that extensive internal and external networks and saying the wrong thing was extremely hazardous.Soviet spies in the 1930's and 40's had extensively infiltrated key US government facilities and projects.
They say that prostitution is the oldest profession if it is then spying is the second oldest.