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Originally Posted by Ikutiera
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Interesting that the US authorities are being candid about it. In the old days we used to call this "extraterritoriality": where one sovereign state could interfere at will (or whim) in the domestic affairs of another (militarily weaker) state, riding roughshod over its claim to be a sovereign state. US extraterroritoriality has being freely exercised in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, but this is the first time I have seen any US official claim it for the entire world (including Europe). And this claim is of course ultimately backed not by international law (a completely impotent thing) but by US armed might. If the US ever was a civilised place, it gave that up a long time ago and has been the evil empire for quite some time.