Historically speaking, the Russians tend to retaliate quite brutally (but secretly) when their diplomats and or spooks are pushed around. Remember the old KGB? Well, it’s still around, just under a new name. The Qatari customs officials who roughed up the diplomat will probably disappear forever.
A Soviet diplomatic school joke.
Students were tasked if they are an ambassadors to a given African nation. They have a “little incident” involving a Soviet navy conducting drills and eventually downing a civilian airliner killing all 250 on board off coast of their hosting nation. They have a note from a prime minister to reply.
Next day professor examined homeworks and didn’t like it.
He told ‘Folks, you did just great, but learn ‘screwyou’ is written separately as ‘screw you’, ‘ape’ is not starts with a capital letter and a N-word has double, not a single ‘g’ in the middle’.
A Soviet diplomatic school joke.
Students were tasked if they are an ambassadors to a given African nation. They have a “little incident” involving a Soviet navy conducting drills and eventually downing a civilian airliner killing all 250 on board off coast of their hosting nation. They have a note from a prime minister to reply.
Next day professor examined homeworks and didn’t like it.
He told ‘Folks, you did just great, but learn ‘screwyou’ is written separately as ‘screw you’, ‘ape’ is not starts with a capital letter and a N-word has double, not a single ‘g’ in the middle’.