YAWN 🥱 Spy services have kompromat on large numbers of pols and execs. Epstein file emails = window into a very dirty world. Spy services can see all of this stuff in real time and hold it over our "leaders"! 🤡 In the case of Angela Merkel (and all EU/German pols), NSA/CIA didn't have to hack their phones - they could intercept every packet. That's why Huawei telco gear ist verboten...

YAWN 🥱 The investigative Parliamentary Committee was set up in spring 2014 and reviewed the selectors and discovered 40,000 suspicious search parameters, including espionage targets in Western European governments and numerous companies. The group also confirmed suspicions that the NSA had systematically violated German interests and concluded that the Americans could have perpetrated economic espionage directly under the Germans' noses.[15][20] The investigative parliamentary committee was not granted access to the NSA's selectors list as an appeal led by opposition politicians failed at Germany's top court - instead the ruling coalition appointed an administrative judge, Kurt Graulich, as a "person of trust" who was granted access to the list and briefed the investigative commission on its contents after analyzing the 40,000 parameters.[21][22] In his almost 300-page report,[23] Graulich concluded that European government agencies were targeted to a significant extent, and that the Americans had therefore breached its agreement with Germany.

If any of this stuff is news to you, or you don't understand how malware works on smartphones, or you don't understand packet routing and large scale surveillance resulting from telco-intel service cooperation, you should QUESTION your own understanding of history, politics, geostrategy, "conspiracy theories" etc. In other words, you might be just another useful idiot with inflated epistemic confidence.