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by Angeo34 2084 days ago
I can only repeat myself. If you are US based privacy is a literal oxymoron for you. Not saying that's not the case anywhere else but it's especially bad for US and it's biggest allies (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

Again go ahead give me all the down it's.

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>but it's especially bad for US and it's biggest allies (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

I'd say that the UK, Canada, Germany, France and the rest of NATO[0] are the US' biggest allies.

Followed by countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia and even Mexico that are much more important as allies to the US than either of those places.

Saudi Arabia and Israel are just incidental players for the US. Saudi Arabia for the oil (The Saudi state oil company is now called Saudi Aramco, but used to be called Arabian-American Oil Company[1]), the military bases, and the arms sales. Israel mostly for the arms sales and to placate many (but certainly not all) Jewish folk in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco