Fitzpatrick and his colleagues at the International Institute of Strategic Studies reacted in the same way: "is this a joke?"

国际战略研究院的Fitzpatrick和他的同事反应一样，“这是个玩笑吗？”

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Otherwise, the whole international system will be a joke.

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It is quite another thing when one year later Loria and Co. are shipping Reyes and everyone else they signed last winter across international borders in some sort of twisted joke that even the World Trade Organization surely will condemn in coming days.

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The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.

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