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> If [the United States] believed in the institutions, why did the embassy prevent the contractors from facing a judge? No single citizen in the United States

> If [the United States] believed in the institutions, why did the embassy prevent the contractors from facing a judge? No single citizen in the United States respects any foreign government's judicial system. The entire nation state concept is a joke and an administrative nuance at BEST to anyone here. The whole story is about how a random autonomous federal agency in the US was either about to cause a regime change, or help the current regime destroy documents in a fake Central Bank heist gone wrong, and people are worried whether we would waste time with an irrelevent judicial trial that we were going to undermine anyway? haha, okay. well if it wasn't obvious before it should be obvious now from me writing it out. The US provides financial support to everyone to maintain relationships, it has nothing to do with respect for an institution.

onetimemanytime 8y ago
> If [the United States] believed in the institutions, why did the embassy prevent the contractors from facing a judge? USA almost certainly sent them, directly or indirectly (i.e., closed both ears and eyes) in an illegal operation. Illegal in a lot of ways. So why would US let them face a judge?
- seppin 8y ago
  It was the local gov that let them off, it was them that hired the group. Being an American national doesn't mean you work for the US Gov.
  - solotronics 8y ago
    Yeah I think it's more likely friends and associates in the military complex got them out of a jam.
lapinot 8y ago
I guess this is called "diplomacy". Eg another word for ensuring control levers on strategical geopolitical targets. It's probably safe to say every G20 country is doing similar things in various parts of the world that is of some interest to them. It would be naive to think this is a specificity of the US, it's just what you do when you can, because why wouldn't you. There's a video channel doing interviews of various serious people quite centered on geopolitical analysis which may provide some insight of some of the stakes (mostly energy, primary resources) but it's in french/about france ("thinkerview").

onetimemanytime 8y ago

> If [the United States] believed in the institutions, why did the embassy prevent the contractors from facing a judge? USA almost certainly sent them, directly or indirectly (i.e., closed both ears and eyes) in an illegal operation. Illegal in a lot of ways. So why would US let them face a judge?

seppin 8y ago
It was the local gov that let them off, it was them that hired the group. Being an American national doesn't mean you work for the US Gov.
- solotronics 8y ago
  Yeah I think it's more likely friends and associates in the military complex got them out of a jam.

lapinot 8y ago

I guess this is called "diplomacy". Eg another word for ensuring control levers on strategical geopolitical targets. It's probably safe to say every G20 country is doing similar things in various parts of the world that is of some interest to them. It would be naive to think this is a specificity of the US, it's just what you do when you can, because why wouldn't you. There's a video channel doing interviews of various serious people quite centered on geopolitical analysis which may provide some insight of some of the stakes (mostly energy, primary resources) but it's in french/about france ("thinkerview").