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Does anyone here support assassinating Putin or any head of state?
It's not going to make any difference.... What makes Putin extraordinary is how ordinary he is.
Unless the Praetorian Guard, or a significant percentage of it, decide to be king makers, it ain't gonna happen.Unfortunately, probably not:
"Could an assassin kill Putin? Just as the second world war would not have happened without the demonic will and agency of Adolf Hitler, so the invasion of Ukraine – and its horrific bloodshed and unspeakable human misery – is Putin’s war. Can he be stopped? The bad news is that the chances do not look good at the moment.
Putin is protected 24/7 by one of the world’s strongest security details, who have sealed him in a closed bubble. All access to him is strictly – almost manically – controlled, in much the same way as it was for Stalin and Hitler. The chances of a lone outside assassin like Fanny Kaplin – a Jewish Ukrainian woman, who, in 1918, fired three bullets into the Bolshevik leader Lenin, touching off a series of strokes that crippled and eventually killed the Soviet dictator – getting to the dictator are zero. If Putin is to be stopped, ousted, and arrested or assassinated, the authors of such an attempt will have to come from within the clique who surround him. Desperate times spawn desperate remedies, and only when the clique think that their own futures are directly imperiled by Putin’s increasingly dangerous actions are they likely to act.
So if the close circle of Generals and corrupt yes men on whom Putin’s power rests are sufficiently alarmed by the increasingly chaotic course of the Ukraine war and the world’s horrified reaction to it, is there the faintest chance that they will take a leaf from the playbook of Beria and Tsar Paul’s officials and end the crisis by bumping off their boss?
As the options open to the kleptocrats and and former secret policemen who Putin has protected and promoted close down, and the rage of the Russian people themselves rise, the best hope for ending this crisis may well rest with bad men acting to bring down the still worse and possibly deranged dictator who is leading them and Russia into the abyss."
Could a Kremlin assassin get to Putin?
Could an assassin kill Putin? Just as the second world war would not have happened without the demonic will and agency of Adolf Hitler, so the invasion of Ukraine – and its horrific bloodshed and unspeakable human misery – is Putin’s war. Can he be stopped? The bad news is that the chances do notwww.spectator.co.uk
Does anyone here support assassinating Putin or any head of state?
Interesting. We have Americans advocating for extra-judicial assassinations.
Very facsist. Remember folks, they're coming for you next.
The “ordinary” don’t blow up the world. He may have “ordinary” looks, but he has the mind of a murderous truant.
Yes. Better him than the thousands of poor Russian conscripts who will be sent to pointlessly die fighting and killing Ukrainians.
Evidently, we've been a fascist nation since the 1950's.Interesting. We have Americans advocating for extra-judicial assassinations.
Very facsist. Remember folks, they're coming for you next.
I disagree. That is the path to madness.
Interesting. We have Americans advocating for extra-judicial assassinations.
Very facsist. Remember folks, they're coming for you next.
Assassination is not a pillar of law, justice, human rights, international diplomacy, or laws of war.
ASSASSINATION IN THE LAW OF WAR
Assassination is not a pillar of law, justice, human rights, international diplomacy, or laws of war.
ASSASSINATION IN THE LAW OF WAR
Go tell that to the CIA.Assassination is not a pillar of law, justice, human rights, international diplomacy, or laws of war.
ASSASSINATION IN THE LAW OF WAR
The problem is that the "good guys" using assassination gives carte blanche to everyone.You are so concerned about one murderous thug. Where is your concern for the thousands that he is now killing? Nowhere in sight, apparently.
The problem is that the "good guys" using assassination gives carte blanche to everyone.
Pooty is apparently trying to recruit mercenaries for Ukraine. He can't be believing his invasion's going well if he needs outsiders to support his incompetent army.
Go tell that to the CIA.
Does anyone here support assassinating Putin or any head of state?
Are you joking?
If the little f***in' terrorist was here alone with me in this room right now, I'd kill him with my bare hands.
Then I'd stuff that black belt down his dead russian throat, for good measure...
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