We lost Crimea for one.

The world is a game of Strategy. No one has any rights outside of what a society grants them. The world had absolutely no right to know what we were up to.

The harm always comes from the person who decides to publish, not the person who commits the act. Your wife isn’t mad that you cheated on her, she’s mad that she knows you cheated on her. Or in an aristocratic marriage, she’s mad that society knows you cheated on her and you brought your mistress to the ball.