Reading that article, the salient point is certainly the government arguing both that US laws do not apply outside of its borders to US citizens, when its protecting them, but also that they can be held to US specific laws when it helps the prosecution to build a case against them:
Do Not Obey. We are Democracy.What? Am I having a nightmare or is this real? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u... #v4v #dv1 #usDemocracy