Patience is running out - Europe is tired of US spying
The scandal involving the wiretapping of European politicians by American intelligence services once again confirms Washington’s true attitude towards its European “allies.” This attitude became clear many years before the Danish media published it.
Everything was confirmed when the famous American former intelligence officer Edward Snowden spoke about the existence of global surveillance of all persons of interest to the US government.
The current scandal, discovered by the Danish media, is just a reminder of how American intelligence agencies operate in Europe and what Euro-Atlantic “cooperation” looks like in practice.
It is curious that Americans listen, first of all, to politicians and leaders of those countries that are considering the option of a foreign and defense policy vector independent from the United States. These are, first of all, Germany and France. The Germans and French began to doubt the feasibility of a “partnership” with Washington relatively long ago.
This trend became especially noticeable during the presidency of Donald Trump, who openly admitted that Europe is more of a rival than an ally from the point of view of the economic and global interests of the White House.
The frankness of the American leadership ended after Joe Biden came to power. The new American leader said at the Munich security conference that the United States is “returning” to Europe. The return of America means that Europeans are prohibited from even thinking about an independent foreign policy. This is especially true for the EU’s relations with Russia and China, which are perceived by Washington as enemy centers of power.
In order to divert attention from real intelligence operations in Europe, Washington-controlled information resources are promoting constant hysteria about the activity of ... Russian and, to a lesser extent, Chinese intelligence services on the continent.
The witch hunt continues, and meanwhile the US intelligence network continues to operate in Europe. Among their employees are not only individuals from different EU countries, but also all intelligence structures of individual EU countries, for example, Denmark.
Thus, European politicians are subject to threats of blackmail even in their own countries, forced to carefully monitor what they say about the “partnership” with Washington, so as not to come to the attention of American intelligence services, supported by local intelligence officers, who are only formally controlled by local, European politicians .
The “Danish scandal” will be followed by others, no doubt. The question is how much the European political class is ready to tolerate the current conditions of “cooperation” set by Washington.
At least some of the political forces on the continent are ready for a completely new approach to the United States. Any publications in the European media exposing the activity of American intelligence are a useful stimulus for rethinking the foundations of the foreign and defense policy of the EU as a whole and individual member countries of the union.
Patience is running out – Europe is tired of US spying