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It’s not naïvety, it’s that that west would appreciate the same treatment when they send spies and assassins, which they do.
by selectodude 3y ago
It’s not naïvety, it’s that that west would appreciate the same treatment when they send spies and assassins, which they do.
- sinkwool 3y agoOr maybe they manage to recruit some of the spies/assassins to work as double-agents?
- selectodude 3y agoAnother distinct possibility.
- dash2 3y agoWhen has the West sent assassins to Iran or Russia?
- Aeolun 3y agoWhat’s the point? Assassinate one dictator and in a few months they’ll have a new one, or the country devolves into a hell of fighting for the next 5 years until one can crown themselves king.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- olegious 3y agoThe West prefers more refined tactics like missiles- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleima...
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- y-curious 3y ago> which they do. Citation sorely needed
- frob 3y ago[flagged]
- justsomehnguy 3y ago[flagged]
- selectodude 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuc...
- fmajid 3y agoThat was by Israelis, not Western Europeans.
- tim333 3y agoThe US tends to use drones these days eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani
- vxNsr 3y agoAgain it is extreme naïveté, those assassins when caught are summarily executed. Iran will pick people off the street, accuse them of working for Israel and kill them, just to send a message to their own people. They’re not politely returning western assassins.
- bee_rider 3y agoI don’t think it is naivety really, Western countries mostly don’t have to “send messages” to their own citizens. Summarily executing assassins or random people you claim to be assassins is just throwing away negotiating chips.
- lordlimecat 3y agoAnd it's your belief that the State Department-- let alone the CIA-- are totally ignorant of what Iran does to its staff?
- vxNsr 3y agoNope, I think the politicians at the top are hopelessly naive or simply too maliciously self involved to care. And are more concerned with appearances than any of the values they claim to espouse.
- fsloth 3y agoExactly. It’s a newtonian game where an action creates a counter action. “You take off one of our field agents, we take off one of your. You return our agent to us, we probably return your agent to you” I have no idea of the recruitment pool but I would imagine operatives who can perform assassinations and are not total loose cannons are in finite supply. Without experience in this domain, I could fermi-guess optimal ones probably come from the few percentages of population who don’t suffer of PTSD after violence. So if you want a person of above average intelligence, who does not mind going to plausibly suicidal missions, and is able to keep it all together, AND has decided to take a career in cloak&dagger… I’d say such fields agents are not trivial to replace. Hence you probably want to issue the courtesy of returning opposing forces, rather than having to find a new field agent (or whatever they are called) or several.