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> When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US?

If they’re just another Joe Schmoe, they’ll be hung to dry. If they have connections, they not only won’t be extradited, they’ll be smuggled out of the country they committed bald-faced murder in to turn it into a question of extradition when it was not.

(Look up Anne Sacoolas.)




> Anne Sacoolas

This was front and centre of my thinking, along with some of the war-crimes scenarios that have played out.




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