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by jl6 726 days ago
> of no real criminality

Just be sure not to let the true Scotsmen migrate!

> a global agreement for countries to not interfere, directly or covertly, in the matters of other countries

Such as interfering with their CO2 emissions?

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Of course "real" would need to be defined, because the typical behavior of tyrannical governments is to charge their political opponents with "real" crimes, roughshod them through kangaroo courts run by cronies of the political establishment, and then imprison them. The general idea is to ensure you don't allow something like genuine murderous terrorists from being able to emigrate to a hostile country.

I don't know what you are implying with the CO2 stuff.

CO2 is the obvious example of where it is probably a good thing that countries attempt to interfere in what other countries do.
This agreement would not prevent countries from agreeing to cooperate on whatever issues that matter to them. What it would prevent is other countries from trying to covertly overthrow, manipulate the elections (in countries with them), etc in other countries in an attempt to put a new government in power that would agree with them on issues.