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by belter 488 days ago
"Former NATO chief Willy Claes on the “high treason of the Americans”: “I try to remain calm, but that is difficult”" - https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20250217_96046540
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As I said, in American English I’ve never heard the term treason used for anything other than bettayal of one’s own country. You appear obsessed with this. Your usage of treason appears to be correct but to me it sounds weird. I’m a native speaker of American English. You were downvoted and I suspect some of those downvotes came from using “treason” as it may have sounded hyperbolic.
Yeah technically it's not high treason which is generally trying to overthrow the monarch.