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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Never!  |
Chief of staff is not the decision making commander at the top.
And you can take it as certain that pieces of US key intel that are rated as being of vital sensibility regarding US interests will
never appear on his desktop.
Its an offer to the German side to allow getting bribed. So politicians will accept it, since they see nothing unusual in that. NSA and CIA probably gave the recommendation, to do something about improving PR after the recent cooling in relations.
I personally would prefer to have the offer rejected. It imitates friendship where there is indeed no friendship, but just shared interests between two states that behind the curtain treat each other as hostile nations anyway (spionage, stealing business secrets, spying on top staff etc.), with the one dwarfing the other in these regards.
Germany wanted to get access to the
five eyes club, but was refused membership. Not that I regret that, but this is the detail that says much more about the state of relations and "trust" than this military post offered now.