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Marco Rubio just PNGd (expelled) the ambassador from South Africa by tweet, app… | |
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@mattblaze Sigh. | |
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Diplomatic expulsions at the ambassador level are extremely rare, generally res… | |
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@mattblaze oh man this is so distressing. ZA is a young democracy and a small e… | |
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Diplomacy around expulsions is generally tit-for-tat. That is, the predictable,… | |
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@charlvdwalt It's so, so stupid. | |
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A bit of terminology background:An "Ambassador" is the the chief dipl… | |
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@mattblaze @charlvdwalt Between this and what Greg Abbot is doing in Texas I th… | |
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A "Diplomatic Mission" is an officially recognized outpost of a count… | |
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@mattblaze The ambassador: "born...to a Muslim family of mixed English-Ja… | |
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@CStamp This is such a disgraceful embarrassment, in a time of disgrace and emb… | |
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@mattblaze and a “High Commission” is the equivalent of an Embassy, but whe… | |
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@mattblaze why would we expect these people to conduct diplomacy either by the … | |
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Diplomats (including ambassadors) and diplomatic missions have to be recognized… | |
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@mattblaze And sometimes hits the media, making the general public aware of dip… | |
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@mattblaze Another Netanyahoo order followed. | |
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@mattblaze I have a feeling Musk is behind this. He's a South African who w… | |
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@mattblaze The tricky thing is there is no confirmed US Ambassador to South Afr… | |
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@mattblaze What's SA's playbook? Appease? Escalate? Partner with India,… | |
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@mattblaze The thing that gets me is that "Little" Marco Rubio knows … | |
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@edgeofeurope An "honorary consul" is generally a citizen of the host… | |
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@mattblaze Such expulsions often occur before declarations of war. | |
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The US is a special case as a host county, because not only do countries have a… | |
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@mattblaze Mr Rasool is a Muslim. A good man. His sin? He represents the govern… | |
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@mattblaze (South African here) I don’t know if our government has the spine … | |
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@mattblaze Rubio might as well have taken a dump somewhere socially important i… | |
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By the way, it's a myth that diplomatic missions are "foreign territor… | |
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@mattblaze Are you sure that's right? Maybe it's different over here in… | |
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@CStamp @mattblaze EU must support South Africa's constitutional system as … | |
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@erici Yes, diplomats have immunity from being detained, prosecuted, or searche… | |
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(Sorry if I've ruined your plans for the perfect crime). | |
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@mattblaze oops, I should have read the whole thread! :) | |
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@mattblaze Well, that's deeply disturbing. | |
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@mattblaze In any case, this US administration seems more interested in policin… | |
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@mattblaze It's similar for organisations that operate under international … | |
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@mattblaze well, things could be worse. Imagine what if he WEBPed the ambassado… | |
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@mattblaze Protocol demands that it be done by tweet! | |
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@mattblaze And let's just remember where modern diplomacy came from. Maybe … | |
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@mattblaze So, what is new? All the *minors* are expected to in line of the … | |
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@mattblaze Considering what happened to Jamal Khashoggi's murderers, it see… | |
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@mattblaze I just want to say that I really enjoyed this thread.To offset the p… | |
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@mattblaze troll him by sending Rubio a white pillow case with eyes cut out as … | |
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@mattblaze So… just another day in Trumplandia, ¿no? | |
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@mattblaze I presume this is because of South Africa’s report on Gaza. Extens… | |
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@mattblaze RSA will JPEG the US ambassador in a tit-for-tat move. | |
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@mattblaze another factor is the upcoming UPR of the US. The process of reviewi… | |
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@mattblaze nah. That plan is far simpler and more mundane:Run the target over w… | |
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@mattblaze Hi Matt, South African here. A bit of context to this: this expulsio… | |
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@mattblaze @edgeofeurope To provide an example, the harbour master at our local… | |
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@mattblaze how very Russian of us | |
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@mattblaze #MarcoRubio can't even DEFINE "persona non grata", so … | |
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@mattblaze Rubio got the information from a Breitbart article? That's basic… | |
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@mattblaze This needs to stop..,. Only in a dictatorship.Oh wait… | |
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@mattblaze I had (naively) thought a consul was head diplomat at a consulate. C… | |
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@oclsc The head of a consulate is usually the “Consul General”. It’s not … | |
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@mattblaze @erici So hypothetically, if a diplomat committed murder in an diplo… | |
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@AT1ST @erici right. Another thing that could happen (rarely) is that the count… | |
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@mattblaze No, the actual offense is surely something personal against Donald T… | |
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@mattblaze In this administration you can be expelled because of hatred and spi… | |
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@mattblaze Amazing how our government has been reduced to pre-elementary tantru… | |
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@mattblaze hmmm, what would happen if every democratic country would decide to … | |
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@mattblaze and real people get really hurt by stupidity like this. | |
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@charlvdwalt @mattblaze there's an argument to be made that by picking on s… | |
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@fencepost @mattblaze yeah I guess what bully actually wants to pick on someone… | |
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@dutch_connection_uk @mattblaze I worry that they fictional world is becoming o… | |
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@charlvdwalt Trump and Rubio are following orders from President Musk a.k.a. Ap… | |
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@Lynnd @mattblaze yeah. And Musk apparently didn’t leave South Africa behind … | |
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@mattblaze oh good. just what we need | |
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@mattblaze That wasn’t the correct South African we need to get rid of… | |
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@mattblaze Got it, thanks.I hope never to need this knowledge, though my only i… |