Denmark plans to call in US ambassador over Greenland spying report

Yeah, but you gotta hand it to him: Not many people can empty a wine bottle while giving it a vacuum sealed blowjob. The man must've mastered some kind of circular breathing technique.

Anyway, I don't think you supposed to remember what individual politicians used to do or say. How are they going to gaslight you into thinking they aren't hypocrites if you're capable to recalling more than last week?

Oddly, Løkke has been somewhat uncharacteristically competent in his current role, especially with regards to Ukraine. Then you've got people like Troels who might say all the right things, at least until an opportunity to take a knee in front of the nearest demanding American, stroke their thighs and look adoring up at them for permission presents itself. Arms dependencies, tone deaf diplomatic entanglements and support for stationed American soldiers not subject to Danish law comes to mind there. The latter reaffirmed just before Hegseth comes out and declares a purge of insufficiently compliant JAGs, which for reasons I cannot comprehend didn't get Troels off his knees either. He must really like it down there.

At least Løkke is offering some - token - opposition here. Okay, it's not much, and it's probably about is practically useful as a chocolate teakettle, but it is barely better than nothing, I guess.

Yep. There's always been spying from foreign governments' intelligence services on allies (especially from the US and the UK because they have such vast surveillance capabilities and budgets), and there's always been commercial spying (e.g. Google, Apple, MS, and others collecting vast amounts of data on everyone using their proprietary software), which then could also be bought by intelligence services to expand their data mountain. It's really nothing new at all. Also, this was all basically part of the infrastructure already. Of course it's going to keep running.

Also, there were these thin excuses of "data protection" agreements between US and EU like "Privacy Shield", which were on incredibly shaky / non-existent legal grounds the whole time (some of them also got taken down already because they were such a joke to begin with), only to sort of "legitimize" and "make legal" the vast amounts of sensitive data that are flowing from EU to US when using US software and services, despite EU laws stating that this shouldn't happen. Basically, to protect their own institutions as well as tons of EU businesses who are trapped in, for example, the Microsoft software ecosystem, so that they can continue to use these software products containing spyware and not feel too guilty about it because it sort of got defined as being lawful.

So all of this, including the hypocrisy behind it, is nothing new at all. In theory, we have all these fancy data protection laws, but in reality, almost everyone either ignores them or doesn't get it.

What's new is only that before Trumps' 2nd term, this sort of stuff was "accepted" as either "necessary" (in regards to the intelligence services spying, because this always was excused on "national security" grounds, and nothing is as important as "national security", the great universal wildcard excuse) or simply as "irrelevant" (in regards to everything concerning data flowing somewhere where it shouldn't be flowing to at all) by a majority of the population including politicians and other entities which could hit the brakes on this stuff. And it happens only now because people realize that Trump's 2nd term might turn the US into a fascist rogue country, that there is some kind of fear or regret suddenly growing about the own previous mindset. But only now. As long as the US was interpreted as being our friendly ally, it was never officially considered to be any sort of problem. Except of course by experts in the area, but who listens to experts, right?

We always have. There are plans for every scenario, every decent sized country and they change continuously. Ironically this is because ya never know when some crackpot dictator may get elected and go off script.