The Germans were fools to think that everyone isn’t spying on everyone else. Sorry, no.
Looks to me like there is an effort by someone, like maybe Putin, to get the Germans to feel mighty and thus to isolate them.
Actually I cannot imagine why anyone would think everyone is NOT spying on everyone else. I mean that why we all have some version of the CIA/NSA.
What do people suppose these agencies do? As for the pols “I’m shocked there is gambilng going on here” responses, I guess they really do think that little of their people’s intelligence.
I get a big kick out of the birthplace of the Gestapo, SS Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the Stasi pointing fingers at anybody else.