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Who can pull those kinds of strings? Dog, the CIA is tremendously powerful, and the bahamas are as powerful as a mid-sized town in iowa. whatever america wants,
by pie420 2y ago
Who can pull those kinds of strings? Dog, the CIA is tremendously powerful, and the bahamas are as powerful as a mid-sized town in iowa. whatever america wants, it gets from countries subject to the monroe doctrine.
- bo1024 2y agoSure, "the CIA" can do it, but my point is that some particular person actually had to coordinate a bunch of people and actions to make this happen, quite quickly after the collapse and before it was even clear whether SBF would be prosecuted at all, let alone in what jurisdiction or on what charges.
- nyokodo 2y ago> whatever america wants, it gets from countries subject to the monroe doctrine The Monroe Doctrine has to do with preventing powers outside the western hemisphere interfering in Latin America, not the US imposing legal jurisdiction over the region which it obviously doesn’t especially given that Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela refuse to extradite despite having extradition treaties with the US. If you mean the US has outright hegemony in Latin America then that is easily falsified simply by pointing to the recent history of Cuba and Venezuela. Certainly the CIA has enormous reach and may have been involved but not necessarily, getting around passport confiscation could probably be handled by the State Department without too much hassle.