Outside the US Capitol, Filibustering has been a (mainly 19th century) pastime for wealthy Americans inclined to meddle abroad, and it has rarely ended well.
Meanwhile, Signore Guido Fawkes discovered in 1605 that England was already one of the earliest modern states with an apparatus to protect itself from foreign riff-raff inclined towards plotting and insurrection.
Since then, many other nations have acquired similar self-defence mechanisms. I would argue that today, the UK, the USA, Russia, China and Israel are the stand-out five which possess a professional service dedicated to watching over their interests, internal and external, that anyone from outside would generally not want to fuck with, on principle...except perhaps someone who works for one of the others.
Musk is steadily moving onto the thinner ice.
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