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Originally Posted by jimbuna
You jest....surely?
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No. Slap me once, I slap you twice. Kick me twice, I kick you three times. Beat me three times and get four in return. Well, that's me.
In principle, what the UK threatens to do at the Ecuadorian embassy equals what the Iranians did at the US embassy. I know that some may not want to hear that, but that'S how it is. It cannot be that a state claims the right to nullify international rules for embassies by making a national law, and then break the rules on that ground. That is as if China would make a law that territorial waters of China no longer are the internationally accepted 6 or 11 miles or how much it was, but now 60 miles. Or as I said: Germany makes a law that allows German police to raid Danish homes and territories. Who would accept to let the Germans and Chinese get away with that?
If Britian decides to play tough and illegal because it is opportune to do so, I would confront it on the same grounds - and then plus some more.
Oberon however probably is right. This is a waiting game.