Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by sschueller on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:56PM
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The US was tapping Angela Merkel's phone. IMO that is as bad for the relationship as blowing up the pipeline. I don't think there is much trust there, just a we have to work together because of NATO and the 50k US troops on Germany's soil.
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Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by bananapub on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:57PM
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er...no, tapping every phone of value in the world is not as bad as secretly bombing something.
you can trivially know this by comparing the US's response to e.g. every hack china and russia have ever done leading to mean words and maybe economic sanctions, vs the US literally invading two countries - which had nothing to do with the person who did the bombings - after 11/9.