The only articulable rationale the US has foreign “greatest allies” or whatever is so they can spy on Americans without running afoul of our nation’s laws prohibiting such spying, so excuse me when I say “fuck those countries to death with a rusty spoon”, because what I really mean is “fuck those countries to death with a rusty spoon after we’ve fucked own politicians near death with a rusty spoon and then scaphicized them”.