From the Skripal poisoning in the UK, to the killing of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother to the disappearance this month of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, foreign powers appear to be growing bolder in conducting operations in other countries – Thank past muted reactions—and America’s own record.
“If we’re going to fault Trump’s rhetoric for contributing to the sense of impunity felt by authoritarian governments, we should also acknowledge Barack Obama’s covert drone campaign in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. This isn’t to draw any moral equivalence between the targeting of members of groups like al Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS and the murders and abductions of dissidents and journalists by dictatorships. But the targeted killing of a country’s enemies outside a declared battlefield was once considered exceptional, and the US has helped make it routine,”
