I’m puzzled as to why you keep mentioning “Europe’s desire to spy on their own citizens” as though this was something unique to European government. Especially puzzling when you consider that this present clusterfuck is down to the USA’s desire to spy on its own citizens as much as it wants to spy on the rest of the world, friend and foe alike.
You may as well say that America’s desire to spy on its own citizens is the reason that America hasn’t shut down the NSA as an illegal organisation already, stormed the NSA’s gates, rearranged all their bytes into ascending numerical order and sent the supercomputers off to universities and NASA to do something useful and harmless.
