Yes that’s exactly right, because the alternative manages to somehow be even worse. All hail the two party system.

Estonia is both in the EU and NATO. Invading Estonia would pretty much trigger WW3

Don’t threaten them with a good time

That woman (Alice Weidel) is a rollercoaster of contradictions:

• She is one of the leaders of the far-right and nationalist party AfD, but lives in Switzerland herself.
• She lives with her girlfriend but refuses to call herself queer and voted against gay marriage
  • her girlfriend voted pro gay marriage in Switzerland
• Said girlfriend is a Swiss immigrant, originating from Sri Lanka, but Weidel promotes the typical anti-immigrant politics you’d expected from a right wing nut job

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with e2e encryption is not letting the good guys have e2e encryption! (or something like that)

The topic of freedom vs security is as old as statesmanship and philosophy, and most would agree that at least some freedoms must be given up to achieve an appropriate amount of safety. The problem however comes with human psychology: while by most metrics we are at record levels safety in these modern times, this doesn’t reflect into the human perception - it just becomes the new baseline. If this wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t even be a debate to give up the fundamental freedom of privacy just to provide whatever sliver of extra security this might possibly yield.

Many governments on the planet have less money than some big tech or oil companies. Obviously not those of large industrious nations, but most nations aren’t large and industrious.

There is nothing objectively wrong with your statement. However, we somehow always default to solving that issue by having some dragon hoard enough gold, and there is something objectively wrong with that.