You're implying that France is going to become a terrorist state? Because suspicious accidents do not sound like rule of law.

Counter-point. France has already kidnapped another social media CEO and forced him to give up the encryption keys. The moral difference between France (historically or currently) and a 3rd wold warlord is very thin. Also, look at the accusations. CP and political extremism are the classic go-tos when a government doesn't really have a reason to put pressure on someone but they really want to anyway. France has a very questionable history of honoring rule of law in politics. Putting political enemies in prison on questionable charges has a long history there.

Killing foreigners outside of the own country has always been deemed acceptable by governments that are (or were until recently) considered to generally follow rule of law as well as the majority of their citizen. It also doesn't necessarily contradicts rule of law.

It's just that the West has avoided to do that to each other because they were all essentially allied until recently and because the political implications were deemed too severe.

I don't think however France has anything to win by doing it or has any interest whatsoever and I doubt there's a legal framework the French government can or want to exploit to conduct something like that legally (like calling something an emergency situation or a terrorist group, for example).

No difference in a strike like that and the strikes against fishing boats near Venezuela trump has ordered

> You're implying that France is going to become a terrorist state? Because suspicious accidents do not sound like rule of law.

Why not? After all, that's in vogue today. Trump is ignoring all the international agreements and rules, so why should others follow them?

Become? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

The second Donald Trump threatened to invade a nation allied with France is the second anyone who works with Trump became a legitimate military target.

Like a cruel child dismembering a spider one limb at a time France and other nations around the world will meticulously destroy whatever resources people like Musk have and the influence it gives him over their countries.

If Musk displays a sufficient level of resistance to these actions the French will simply assassinate him.