For countries, poltical parties and even at the individual level, I think that this is an important lesson of the times:

Do not be too shy to act, do not be too afraid to stand up against the ones that are pushing the boundaries of what is tolerable.

Yeah, agreed.

Thanks for the response and interesting link. I should have worded my initial comment better, I suppose.

What I am saying it that it may be worth considering that the extraordinary nature of the leak warrants a critical analysis of a possible ulterior motive or furtherance of some other agenda.

What I may be, I don’t know.

However, for instance, even more than the leak itself, I find it ultimately more relevant that a very anti-European stance was expressed in the coziness of a “private” chat by the senior most national-security officials of the US.

Yeah, I find the “accidental” chat with a journalist too strange to take it at face value.

This story is so weird that I take it with grain of salt.

Top level personnel added him to a chat. He wrote a piece that otherwise makes them look good (at least mildly competent). Then left the chat.