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I was hinking of this incident recently, and looked up the topic again.
The original link I put up has expired, so here's one of the incident by Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/in...est-removes-security-barriers-at-embassy



And from Youtube :

Dangerous payback for Indian diplomat's strip search (CNN)

Indians outraged by U.S. strip search, arrest of diplomat (CNN, Don Lemon. Man, has HIS era at CNN ended ! )

India retaliates after arrest of diplomat in NYC (CBS morning news, Margaret Brennan)

India demands US apology over diplomat arrest (Aljazeera)


And how the incident eventually turned out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devyani_Khobragade_incident

The U.S. filed charges, dismissed Khobragade, hen re-arrested her, and then the whole thing appears to have fizzled ou despite the charges in early 2014, amid several former U.S. diplomats saying it was a stupid move by the U.S. to arrest her and treat her the way they did.

Cavity search. Of an India diplomat. And the daughter of a higher India diplomat, no less. What the hell were they thinking?
But again, I admire the India government for flexing their muscle on this, to express their extreme outrage over how the U.S. treated an India diplomat. An expression of power the U.S. seems afraid to flex in similar situations.
Such as two separate incidents during Obama's presidency, where U.S. marines were imprisoned by Mexico (essentially held hostage by corrupt jail officials, to exttort cash payouts by their families for their release).
Or the Daniel Pearl beheading.
Or currently, almost 90 attacks in Iraq and Syria on U.S. bases by Iranian proxies, since Ocober 7th.
Or Hamas killing or taking hostage 42 Americans during Hamas' October 7th raid on southern Israel.

While less powerful, India has demonstrated they would not tolerate these kind of attacks on their citizens and military.
Whereas repeatedly the U.S., insanely, does tolerate these atacks.