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I have a hard time understanding how playing the "espionage game" in a country were you don't even live can even be procecuted. US law is not supposed to apply

I have a hard time understanding how playing the "espionage game" in a country were you don't even live can even be procecuted. US law is not supposed to apply abroad. But yeah that's where that "Soft Power" card comes into play I guess.

xtracto 6y ago
> US law is not supposed to apply abroad That's what the "Imperialism" monkier that a lot of "enemies of the USA" coin means. The Megaupload guy, a guy from Australia, Hew Raymond Griffiths (copyright infrignment... really?) and Gary McKinnon (admin/admin Windows machines). On this day an age, the majority of countries will bow to the USA and give anything the country asks for. Few countries are really independent and would dare to stand up even for their own citizens. It is sad, but countries like Russia and China doing "what is right" to balance that sort of power is a scary situation where we have arrived.