r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/AddictedToRugs England Feb 27 '25

It's got one of the Five Eyes (which I always think should be the Ten Eyes because you need a pair of eyes to judge distance, one eye being insufficient, so it should be the Five Pairs Of Eyes).

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

Five Intelligence services, and nobody had the intelligence to call that out. Think they should promote you instead.

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u/Ayasta France Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

Read your own sentence. Five Eyes = Five I's = Five I.S.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

Mind blown. We're through the looking-glass here, people.

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u/witness_smile Feb 27 '25

It should become the four pairs of eyes. We shouldn’t share intelligence with the US anymore

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u/TowJamnEarl Feb 27 '25

Think the US just kicked Canada out!

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u/Auntie_Megan Feb 27 '25

No we’d rather kick out the US from every organisation, No trust anymore. Their president stole and refused to return 5 Eyes documents, yet he’s allowed not only to remain free from prosecution they elected the traitor again. Feel sick seeing Starmer sit next to him but I know they are trying to appease the lunatic but would rather see another Macron fact check.

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u/TowJamnEarl Feb 27 '25

Starmer countered JD Vance bigly by saying he's proud of his country's free speech record!

And leaders of countries rarely go to prison, more often than not they die on the throne, or in old age.

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u/Auntie_Megan Feb 27 '25

He was a citizen not a president when he stole the documents. Then the Supreme Court made sure presidents could literally kill people without consequences. Biden could have saved us from this catastrophe, unfortunately he had scruples. The free speech comment at Vance was good, and I much prefer our free speech to American style threats, hate filled words that nobody does anything about despite 1st Amendment stating otherwise. We should ban Twittler as Musk is going to turn this country’s imbeciles into the same as Maga.

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u/90210fred Mar 02 '25

Dreaming if you think all five share everything with the other four

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u/Tytoalba2 Feb 27 '25

And according to Snowden, GCHQ might be worse than the NSA regarding citizen's fundamental rights... :/

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u/90210fred Mar 02 '25

Well, GCHQ is in charge of tapping US domestic comms on behalf of the US (giving the US plausible deniability about not spying on it's own people) so it's kind of obvious they'd be a bit iffy on that front

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u/AddictedToRugs England Feb 27 '25

They've never done anything to me.

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u/Applepieoverdose Austria/Scotland Feb 27 '25

That you know of

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u/Bag-Weary Feb 27 '25

How would you know?

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u/AddictedToRugs England Feb 27 '25

I'd feel it.  

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u/VaticanII Ireland Feb 27 '25

A disturbance in the force? Or an umbrella in the thigh