Domestic‑Law Cover for Extraterritorial Raids

States may increasingly invoke domestic criminal statutes as the legal cover to perform extraterritorial seizures of foreign leaders or assets. That tactic collapses the distinction between law‑enforcement and wartime coercion, making international operations prosecutorial in form but geopolitical in effect. — If normalized, this practice would erode multilateral norms, complicate attribution and retaliation calculations, and shift oversight questions from foreign‑policy to criminal‑procedure domains.