[markdown]

> Come on everyone spies.

That's what they want everyone to think so that they can use it to excuse their antisocial behaviour.

Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Peru, Mongolia... there's a very long list of countries that don't.

[demadog]

They would if they could. Those are mostly tiny countries with almost no resources to spy.

[itsokimbatman]

I don’t know about all of them, but a quick Google search shows that both Mongolia and Puru have intelligence agencies, which means very likely they have some sort of collection capability for HUMINT and/or SIGINT.

The ones that don’t have intelligence capabilities are probably the exception rather than the rule, and I doubt they’re doing out of good will vs just not having the resources for it.

[samhw]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or genuinely giving a list of minuscule island chains, culminating in the country that's literally the universal metonym for 'middle of nowhere'.