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"No problem. What about the sexual harassment, the bordellos and the corruption??! I.e. the oil for food scandal is absolutely no issue in Europe but it would be one if the US would arrest a European politician for it."

As you said... oil for food scandal was mentioned; rapes in africa were not mentioned in any of the slovenian media... like ever - of course, we don't have any troops there; we only keep them in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Jordan (of course we won't send our soldiers to Iraq - illegal war, political backlash in the next elections would be brutal, we did send some instructors in the neighbouring countries to train the Iraqi police though).

EU and USA are different when it comes to jurisdiction and what we do. USA likes to play the "we're the strongest country in the world" - military card. EU excercises its jurisdiction within its borders a.k.a. "you come in one of our countries and you're out" - political card.


PS: Threathening Spain wouldn't do any good really. Economically EU is already separating itself from the USA and connecting itself to Asia, threathening EU countries economically would only speed up the process.

PPS: Threathening another country with nukes (as some people indicated here)... think about it, in the end it doesn't really matter if you can destroy the world 1x or 1000x, in the end it's all dead. Even small european countries like Slovenia have both the technology and the means to produce nuclear weapons, but fact is that we don't need them, ergo we don't produce them. Threathening people with nukes just starts another MAD programs.

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PPS: Threathening another country with nukes (as some people indicated here)... think about it, in the end it doesn't really matter if you can destroy the world 1x or 1000x, in the end it's all dead. Even small european countries like Slovenia have both the technology and the means to produce nuclear weapons, but fact is that we don't need them, ergo we don't produce them. Threathening people with nukes just starts another MAD programs.

Yep! If you take the bigger European countries like Germany, Spain or Poland it would probably only days to produce some simple nukes (not to talk about the Frenchies and the Brits). Germany i.e.owns several tons of PU 239 out of its commercial nuclear power plants. Anyway I would not take some emotional contributions too serious since they do not represent the agenda of the US administration. ;-)

There will be no arrest and there will be no overreaction.