• XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s the crime? Honest question, I’m not being facetious.

    Presumably (if I had access to Putin) I could phone him and ask him to not escalate the war. Why is that illegal?

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      2 months ago

      Guessing they meant as a violation of the Logan act. As he is not in office he isn’t supposed to be negotiating with foreign governments. The U.S. is providing military aid, and in truth not that he cares, but he isn’t up to date on U.S. Intel. Maybe they’ll tell us it was another law though