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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by molticrystal on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:54AM (#38581565)
What if Spain quietly disposes of them and tries to leave hints to anybody who comes later to investigate that Russia or a similar country responsible. Anybody who comes to replace or investigate after wards is very suspicious and should be monitored.

For this round, you lose out on concessions, but if pulled off successfully you gain control over the situation, in addition you can get future concessions by an outing/capture whenever needed.

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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by bomewish on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:36AM (#38581804)
Probably the Americans would find out and it’s not an enemy you want. There would be retribution.
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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by fullspectrumdev on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:37AM (#38583287)
Espionage between civilised countries has fairly civilised almost customary rules since the end of WW2 tbh.

Spies with diplomatic cover simply get expelled/PNG’d, illegals get detained, put on trial and kept for potential horse trading, and local agents (traitors) get dealt with as the country sees fit. Usually by imprisonment, these days.

The status quo of these “rules of the game” being upheld has been the case for ages, it’s in nobodies interest to start breaking those “rules”.

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