Comment by Ambolia
4 days ago
Because it's the only country allowed get away with stuff that would be an international scandal if a normal country did it.
4 days ago
Because it's the only country allowed get away with stuff that would be an international scandal if a normal country did it.
> an international scandal if a normal country did it
Russia, China and America each have notable offensive cyberwarfare capabilities. (Pyongyang is a nuclear-armed cybercrime ring at this point.)
You just listed some of the most sanctioned countries in the world #1 and #3.
China doesn't have large sanctions because it plays a key role in the economy, but the US had massive regime change intelligence operations against them in the 90s, but they failed and were dismantled.
Just like frontier models get away with things no humans would.
More specifically, it can steal military and tech secrets from the USA and keep getting invited back. Total impunity.
And also injure and kill our sailors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
In that one incident, they killed and injured more than double the number killed and injured by Al Qaeda in the attack on the USS Cole.
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Did we forget about Snowden?
Everyone knows Snowden so I guess it was quite big scandal
Everyone knows Snowden was a bad boy who got himself into trouble.
That’s as much as your mom knows.
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And Gitmo, lies leading to invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, all of the times we whoopsies a JDAM into a school or wedding…
But yeah the country under an eternal international microscope is the one “getting away with it.”
US gets away with it because no one can challenge their military might, Israel gets away with it because any criticism of the state is “anti-Semitic”. Not the same thing
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All normal countries spy on their enemies and all normal countries spy on their friends. All normal countries use cyber-espionage. All normal political groups condemn the actions of groups they oppose and excuse the same actions when committed by those they support.
1. For all normal countries, if they get caught, there's consequences. For Israel there's no consequences even if they get caught.
2. Israel is embedded in US politics. So US government is allowed to purchase this from Israeli contractors but I doubt they would be allowed to purchase sensitive stuff like from a neutral country like UAE.
So, the US is the customer and also protects Israel so Israel has built an entire industry around it.