Equally important, most governments have been unwilling to completely abandon meddling in other states’ domestic affairs. The norm of “non-interference” hasn’t stopped the U.S. government from using cyberweapons, supporting anti-regime exile groups, imposing economic sanctions, or conducting targeted assassinations of foreign officials) and the United States is far from unique. Russia engages in propaganda and social media activities intended to disrupt domestic politics in other countries, and governments in the global south have moved away from the strict commitment to non-interference that many of them embraced in the immediate aftermath of decolonization. African governments have repeatedly interfered in each other’s internal politics, for example, even though the Charter of Organization of African Unity explicitly mandates “non-interference in the internal affairs of states.”