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by kube-system 1466 days ago
Germany is widely regarded as having the best privacy laws in the world, and they participate in NATO conflicts.

Several countries in SE-Asia have been at peace for much longer and will happily man-in-the-middle your internet traffic at the whim of their unchecked government powers [e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Vietnam].

A country's participation in war and their effective protections for privacy are not strongly correlated, demonstrably so.