• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    As someone who might be a little pathologically adverse to acknowledging anything the Biden administration does right, I have to admit they have apparently been better in how they handled US allies attempting to assassinate people on our soil than prior administrations have been.

    In some related news, TIL

    back during the Cold War, some American allies were doing just that. One of them was Chile’s General Augusto Pinochet. In 1976, Chilean intelligence operatives killed a former ambassador, Orlando Letelier, and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt in a car bombing in Washington, D.C.

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    Five years after the Letelier bombing, two union organizers in Seattle were murdered inside their local union office. A U.S. court later found Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda liable for the murders. The killings were said to be in retaliation for the men’s anti-Marcos organizing.

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    in 1984, a Chinese American named Henry Liu was gunned down in the garage of his home in Daly City, Calif. Members of a Taiwanese criminal gang, acting at the behest of Taiwan’s military intelligence, were convicted of the murder.

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      9 months ago

      Trump just let the assassination happen in the Turkish embassy. And then was okay with Saudi Arabia to refuse to let his American citizen children out.

      I don’t know if Biden has done anything about that. I hope he has, if he can.