Reflections of a stormy petrel

You keep on talking as though foreign countries were American cops. Get used to the fact that they are not (with some exceptions, as we will see). Polanski would not have been arrested in France or Italy, because once we have taken the view that such a person deserves our protection, we take that view seriously. As for England, on the other hand, considering its poodle tendencies and traditional lack of honour, one assumes that even an innocent man would have a dire time if a certain foreign power were after his hide. There is a scandalous extradition treaty, which allows the American side to demand the extradition of literally anyone they want, while the British party has no similar rights towards the USA, which is currently causing uproar because a man, a British citizen mind you, who seems to everyone a harmless geek is being forced into an American jail because he hacked into Pentagon computers in search of UFOs. So perhaps your national tendency to think of other governments as your personal paid cops and hit-men would find England a suitable partner; alas, other countries are less pliant.