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fromcjoe123 t1_ismz94g wrote

It's a privilege to have a consulate, not a right.

Shut it down and bar entry to the UK to any of its members.

China will just have to conduct its diplomatic business from their embassy.

This would be a diplomatic incident if any Western nation pulled this shit in China, I'm not sure why the UK should treat this event any differently.

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kittenconfidential t1_isn11e3 wrote

well, they publicly let putin get away with murder a couple of times now, so… fecklessness in the face of fascists is probably a good starting point

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Arild11 t1_isnjqt4 wrote

Not much you can do about Putin, as he never leaves Kreml. But the FSB in the UK has been practically neutered since the attempted poisoning of the Skripals. The level of counter intelligence they've been facing is debilitating.

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axonxorz t1_ispfuxg wrote

Don't know what's worse: FSB agents acting on foreign soil with impunity, or that apparently the UK's intelligence apparatus was/is able to curtail it at their whim.

I know counterintelligence is a thing, but I don't know how to read that sequence of events as anything other than MI5 dropping the ball and having to overcompensate.

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Arild11 t1_isv651a wrote

I don't think anyone expected the FSB to act as utterly brazenly as they did, spraying nerve gas in a major Western town. That was unthinkable even during the height of the Cold War, and the KGB wouldn't ever have done it.

Dropping the ball means someone had an idea they had gone rogue state.

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Danimalsyogurt88 t1_isngps3 wrote

If memory serves right Turkish diplomatic staff did this in the US. Where a security detail roughed up a protestor.

It didn’t lead to a diplomatic incident.

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Dougalishere t1_isnhksn wrote

They legit charged into a group of protesters and started attacking them. On national TV and in front of US police.

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KJBenson t1_isnlha8 wrote

In front of the police you say?we’re just lucky the police didn’t join in.

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IAmInTheBasement t1_isqm3sd wrote

That would have been an even more interesting story if the protesters were packing heat and defended themselves with deadly force.

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Dougalishere t1_isrvupg wrote

Not really, would have turned into some horrific bloodbath with a bunch of people dead. Not a whole lot interesting about that.

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MajorAcer t1_isss9me wrote

That would be horrible...but horrible things can easily be interesting.

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BisquickNinja t1_isnsj26 wrote

I'm guessing it didn't go much higher as the leadership at that time had ... nice feelings... for Erdogan.

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WarLordBob68 t1_isq3z43 wrote

That’s because Trump was President at the time.

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Danimalsyogurt88 t1_isqdgye wrote

Yeah, I call bullshit on that.

Any US President would’ve done the same for a strategic ally.

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Sadiebb t1_isqok6q wrote

It wouldn’t have happened under any other President

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d0ctorzaius t1_isqk71i wrote

>it didn't lead to a diplomatic incident

Tends not to when your leader is financially compromised by the other country's leader.

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Oscarcharliezulu t1_isngtff wrote

They’ve got a brute squad? Inconceivable! I thought the Chinese loved free thinking and the right to have an opinion.

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jordantask t1_ispugfw wrote

China LOVES opinions!

The CCP is fabulous is an opinion.

China is the greatest country on earth and can do no wrong is an opinion.

Hong Kong and Taiwan are part of China is an opinion.

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Oscarcharliezulu t1_it5dsg3 wrote

I think I’m China ‘opinion” is defined as “mandated facts” :)

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Jebusura t1_isnpycl wrote

Truss can't answer difficult questions at a press conference. She isn't the one to handle an unusual and urgent diplomatic issue

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thatnameagain t1_ispobkn wrote

Just to be clear, this is being reported on because it IS a diplomatic incident.

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Watdabny t1_isnbxge wrote

I was thinking that maybe any foreign national that visits any country should, as well as being subject to that country’s laws, also be subject to the laws of their home country when visiting. That’d make it interesting if any one with seditious intentions were subject to the same punishments they’d receive at home

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