• detalferous@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I thought the US government had a policy against paying ransoms. But we did it with the basketball player in Russia, too This will come back to haunt us because it clearly communicated to terrorist organizations (even if they are governments of foreign nations) that the US will pay you if you threaten enough citizens.