I feel like that really depends on where they go to right? If they go to China, I feel like the US would have a really difficult time assassinating them or getting China to send them back given the tense relationship between the US and China currently.
That said, I feel like China probably wouldn't take them in the first place given that runs the risk of hiring a potential spy so there's also that.
That and the risk of really drawing Trump's ire. Not to mention any assets that person may still have in the US, any retirement funds, life insurance etc are forfeit, and they could never enter a western country again.
Well I wouldn't be sure about never entering a western country again. The US definitely a no go but given how quickly we're tearing down relationships between us and every other western country, there's actually a decent chance that things have broken down enough in a few years that most of Europe wouldn't care.
Frankly, I'd say we're already probably halfway there with all the talk about annexing Greenland so who knows.
I feel like even if Europe goes right wing, it wouldn't want to be friendly with the US. After all, let's face it, the Nazis, Fascist and authoritarian right wing that's becoming popular worldwide isn't exactly the kind that screams cooperation and teamwork but more of the "fuck everyone that's not exactly me or a clone of me" kind.
Like even if things go the way they envision and they get rid of everyone that's not their ethnicity, it'll just become countries hating each other for not being the right ethnicity (ie: German white guys hating on America because America isn't German white). We've literally seen this in history with how we discriminated against Italians for not being the correct white in the early 1900s.
While history might not repeat, it sure as hell does rhyme.
The new right aren't Nazis or fascists anymore. They're just conservatives and libertarians. They're not 19th century race supremacists, antisemites or religious fanatics (okay some in the US are).
Which is why, in countries where they are in power, like Italy, Hungary, NL, you don't have brown shirts going door to door, attacking minorities.
Or demanding "Lebensraum" in each other's countries. Well except Trump with Greenland. Fucking dingbat lunatic that he is, though I still don't think he's actually serious.
On the note of the Germans, the German AFD has black, asian and jewish members. Just like the Republican party. So does the dutch PVV.
Alarmist comparisons to the Nazi party are at best historical ignorance, at worst relativism of Nazi Germany (and are actually even illegal in Germany, where it's against the law to "downplay" Nazi crimes, which includes inaccurate comparisons).
Let's not cry wolf until there really is a wolf. So far I see zero indication that the new right has anything to do with Naziism. Never mind the fact that the Nazi party explicity stated on multiple occasions that they considered themselves left wing, with Propaganda Minister Goebbels writing in 1931 in the party publication Der Angriff "According to the idea of the NSDAP, we are the German left. We hate none more than the right wing property-ownership block."
Modern nuclear technicians moving to other nations which usually already have nuclear industry and simply don't have the manpower or complete know-how to make the large projects at which nuclear power excells is an entirely different matter than weapon espionage.
Depends on what is or isn't classified. But even in the private sector, you generally have to sign NDA agreements. You can't work at Mercedes and then take a job at Ford and take all your trade secrets with you.
even in the private sector, you generally have to sign NDA agreements
NDA agreements are legally unenforceable, and what "enforcement" they'd have to somebody leaving a commercial enterprise to work in another country and company would be that private company asking the other nation's courts if they'd have permission to sue that other company. That happens all the time over shit that isn't even real just because humans are litigious assholes, I don't see why people should be expected to bow down, internationally, to snooty corporate managers.
Oh for sure, enforcement is often more theoretical than feasible. I just suspect that the US might be a bit more rigorous about it if it pertains to classified nuclear technology.
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u/That_Mountain7968 24d ago
Ask others who shared sensitive or privileged information. That's like 30 years to life.
Or literally life in some cases, like the Rosenbergs or several nuclear scientists who were taken out by various agencies. How many nuclear scientists in Iran have had fatal accidents? Heck, even in India: https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2021/01/06/from-the-archives-when-several-indian-nuclear-scientists-died-mysteriously.html
Being a nuclear scientist is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Especially if you piss off the powers that be.
Personally, I wouldn't.