Your opposition is just, and they are monstrous.

At the base of this is the fact that US intel owns Facebook, Google and nearly all the big data parasites, and get insane levels of intelligence from them. And in the main, everyone else is cut off.

So, the Euros, if they are to compete (and they truly believe they must), they are left with financial surveillance, and with chat. Accordingly, they'll lie, cheat, steal and manipulate to get it.

Still, no matter how many abuses they get away with, it remains our job to hack around them... and our guys are good. :)