[kabar]

I agree with everything you said except the part about US embassies. For all extents and purposes, they are treated as US soil except from local laws and regulations per international conventions and treaties. Embassies have been used as places of sanctuary from host governments in many, many cases.

[Citizen Blade]

For all extents and purposes, they are treated as US soil except from local laws and regulations per international conventions and treaties. Embassies have been used as places of sanctuary from host governments in many, many cases.

Their status as foreign soil is a legal fiction created by treaty. Most countries respect the fiction, of course. But, the host country can kick embassies out. That makes them different from real sovereign territory- no one can kick the US out of Florida or some other part of sovereign US territory in the same way.