Russia has used Americans abducted *in Syria* as negotiating pawns for Russians imprisoned in the US https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/middleeast/austin-tice-syria-cia-pompeo.html …pic.twitter.com/Kvj8V2gQIx
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You're kidding, right? You honestly think that's treated as a normal assertion of sovereign jurisdiction by other countries, esp RU? Really?
If, as you posited, they were to have use this construct as an attempt to get him back, then yes, because getting him back is a priority.
No. I posited that almost anyone who observed that case from a non-jingoistic view recognized it (and similar EDNY cases) as aggressive.
Didn’t get that, thought you were asking a straight-up question.
I was surprised to hear someone talk about Bout's case as if it weren't highly unusual and wanted to know if you really believed it was. Yes
That’s a different question than how the Russians would treat it — they care about international law when it suits them.
And when it doesn’t, they throw it out the window. As they would if they were looking to get Bout back under this construct.
And the US doesn't?
Right. Analysis that starts from assumption that *only* RU fiddles w/intl norms and law will end w/polemic bc premise is faulty.
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