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For agents in the wrong country at the time of the announcement, it may just condemn them to torture or death.
by jklm 6y ago
For agents in the wrong country at the time of the announcement, it may just condemn them to torture or death.
- dragonsngoblins 6y agoI mean, sure and that sucks for them but I kinda think that is part of the risk of being an agent. Don't want to get killed by foreign governments? Then don't go and do espionage in their countries. These are agents who have materially harmed another nation, it isn't as if they have only been acting in a purely defensive capacity and working on the internal security of the US.
- jklm 6y agoI don't think you can know for sure what exactly they did. Does the crime merit death? You raise a point that they weren't acting in a purely defensive capacity - for all we know, "did Russia harm" could mean they were a counterintelligence agent that successfully sounded the alarm on a Russian intelligence operation on US soil. From that perspective, wouldn't Russia be the aggressor now?