Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door

You're demanding something you're not offering. Why on earth should the US behave in a manner NOT being in its best interest, to benefit a bunch of foreigners in a foreign nation? I seriously doubt that Germany treats San Marino or Haiti as equals, instead of small nations to be dictated to. I'm pretty sure Greece has some complaints in that department about Germany, as well. For another perspective, the US treats Germany as a equal in the same way that the German soccer team treats the US soccer team as an equal; we'll meet you on field of battle, but we're not going to let you score against us unless you can force us to let you score.

I don't ask for you to trust the US, whatever that means. What I do ask is that you don't act like China or Russia are more trustworthy, and that you don't turn a blind eye when other democratic nations push forward encryption restrictions or the like.

> And I see America with its Capitalist, "Devil take the hindmost", Wild West attitude as the enemy.

It's funny that you post this on an article about how America is being uncapitalist by restricting corporations in the name of the public good.