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Generally actions done to your citizens abroad will cause less retribution than actions done to host nation citizens in host nation. Even better if there is an
by rdl 11y ago
Generally actions done to your citizens abroad will cause less retribution than actions done to host nation citizens in host nation. Even better if there is any level of plausible (or even implausible) deniability.
Russia pretty much got away with murdering Litvinenko in London; if they'd done that to a natural-born UK citizen in the UK with no other ties to Russia, and unambiguously, there would have been much more serious consequences.
- pjc50 11y agoRussia pretty much got away with murdering Litvinenko in London Well, up until now. It was so clearly a political decision to ignore it when it happened and now that relations with Russia have deteriorated it's been investigated and the obvious conclusion reached. The CIA could have someone with 'CIA' on their jacket shoot a UK citizen on the street in broad daylight and the UK would avoid investigating it if it was politically inconvenient to do so.
- jacquesm 11y agoChances are this already happened.
- sangnoir 11y agoWasn't a UK citizen illegally rendered, detained at Guantanamo and released after many years without being charged? I haven't heard of any enquiries/investigation s into that episode by the government across the pond.
- ryanlol 11y agoItaly indicted 26 CIA agents including multiple station chiefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case Jeffrey W. Castelli, Rome station chief received a 7 year prison sentence Robert Seldon Lady, Milan station chief received a 8 year prison sentence
- sangnoir 11y ago>> I haven't heard of any enquiries/investigation s into that episode by the government across the pond. I'm referring to Her Majesty's government: Italy isn't the US's poodle the way the UK is, the thread was discussing the non-action of the UK government due to political inconvenience
- ryanlol 11y ago>I'm referring to Her Majesty's government: Italy isn't the US's poodle the way the UK is, the thread was discussing the non-action of the UK government due to political inconvenience I get that, but figured it would still be worth noting that other EU states have previously done this.