allies

We can all circumvent laws about spying on our own citizens by having our closest allies do it.

Couple thoughts: Startups should think of analysts as potential allies and win them over, much as they do reporters.

Finland isn't part of any military alliances, so there is no sharing of intelligence with allies.

It would be great if Hollywood made a movie about this (or slavery in the middle east committed by Western allies).

But after we did it no one else should (except our allies) and we are gonna keep it.

The US has vastly more allies globally than China does, and that's the difference.

For example, they cannot join US forces for combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, as other US allies do.

One's neighbors are one's allies in the class struggle against the ruling class.

But if the allies had lost the war the bombings would have been considered a war crime by the victors, without a doubt.

Thailand is a huge culprit here and they get away with it because they managed to sandwich themselves as valuable allies to the west.

I think (hope?) a more balanced approach like in Belgium can work in bigger countries, further bolstering cooperation between allies.

Note that both Canada and England are allies of the USA.

If Britain and America had not become allies in the late 19th century, then the ongoing antipathy between them would have required their speaking systems to be classified as "languages".

Recently, the Japanese government has been pushing for a change in the laws (or in the interpretation thereof) so that Japan can help its allies under the guise of "collective self-defense".

Which I am about to downvote myself, because I have a general policy of downvoting complaints about downvoting (because they are boring) unless there's something more to them than "waaaaah, I'm (or my political/religious/social allies are) being downvoted and I don't like it".

"At the very moment Merkel and her allies are hectoring the Greeks about their profligacy, the airport’s cost, borne by taxpayers, has tripled to €5.4 billion." So, which country does Germany want to borrow money from in order to cover the wasteful spending?