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[MINILIK SALSAWI]

Diplomats might argue that Turkey’s importance had to take priority, but much more was at stake than justice for a couple dozen American victims. By demonstrating that Erdogan could attack Americans in the heart of Washington, D.C., with impunity, the White House telegraphed to other dictators and despots from China’s Xi Jinping to Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki to Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev that they could target Americans in America. The People’s Republic of China designates certain students to spy on their peers. Eritrean diplomats talk about regime loyalists in America as a “fourth front” they use to control and extort the diaspora, not only harassing them in the United States, but also extorting them by imprisoning or threatening to harm relatives who may remain in Eritrea. Aliyev’s bodyguards replicated the Sheridan Square incident in front of the U.S. Institute of Peace during the first meeting of the Gaza Board of Peace on Feb. 19, 2026. READ MORE : https://www.aei.org/op-eds/rubio-should ... americans/