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by chmod775 1742 days ago
You are wrong. Most nations either don't have the capability to spy on foreign diplomats to this degree or it would be too risky for them to try - because they don't have the political power to survive repercussions.

Then there's also nations - which may be surprising to US citizens - where government agencies respect laws, international agreements, and diplomatic immunity as a matter of process. It takes a particular kind of arrogance and belief in their immunity to repercussions to disregard these out of their own volition - without any instruction from country leadership.

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Can you give some concrete examples of exemplars of the latter paragraph?