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Transnational Thursdays 28

Apologies if this is a double post. I posted the original earlier but was told it appears as deleted to other users. Here's hoping it works this time.

This is a weekly thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or IR history. I usually start off with coverage of some current events from a mix of countries I follow personally and countries I think the forum lives in or might be interested in. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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is what should US and Canada do about active Sikh separatist operating from their soil?

A country that can't protect its citizens is no country at all. This goes for Canada as well as the US- if some fucking foreign nation thinks they can send assassins to summarily execute citizens for activity that's perfectly legal in their country, they have another thing coming.

Now, if Canada or the US doesn't want citizens that are active Sikh separatists, maybe they should start screening them on the way in or pass laws to make it so that immigrants that agitate for separation lose that citizenship. As it is, they took them in, any attack on the citizens is [on its face] an attack on the sovereignty of the nation, and it's troubling as to why "this is a blatant and clear attack on our nation's security" wasn't the first thing out of anyone's mouth (in the former's case, guess that's the cost of being a "post-national" nation).

I completely agree with your logic. The thing you're missing though is dismissing Sikh Separatists as something minor. It's understandable since US and Canada both don't face any perceptible threat from them. Sadly India does and sees US and Canada's indifference as facilitation of these groups. That said I am not taking lightly the seriousness of a foreign power interference. Though how situation will change depends on realpolitik, we can be sure that the US court will examine the details of it and the facts would be aired.