[athrowaway3z]

That is rather disturbing but this had me lol:

> Spain is “making a big mistake,” said Bart Groothuis [...] “Spain is now dependent on the country with the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program directed against us.”

I highly doubt he's naive enough to believe the "against us" qualifier exempts the operator of the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program ever.

[8note]

espionage is a lot less bad than conquering by force.

the US properly fucked up by very publicly declaring intent to conquer greenland and canada