I wonder how this article will read if someone just decides to kill Putin. The article is very pessimistic. To be fair, this hasn’t worked in Iran or North Korea.
But those are small nations. The fate of Russia over the next few years could easily determine the next hundred of geopolitics.
A savvy western cohort would keep the pressure on until western friendly policies are enacted. Make a big fuss about democracy and ensuring this never happens again while giving china the evil eye.
Topple Russia backed authoritarian regimes while they’re at it.
Well, you guessed wrong. We are both English although we live outside the UK, one in Norway and the other in France.
I see you are from Tunisia. Did you mean that it is taboo in Tunisia, North Africa, the Mediterranean fringe, or somewhere bigger?
I agree that assassination as an instrument of war is certainly not to be considered. But perhaps a Brutus style assassination would have different consequences than one committed by an external actor.
makes sense as a psyop attack against putin to try and make him paranoid. But do you seriously think putins security is so lax during war time as to leave surface for someone to assassin him in russia? do you think for example a sufficient number of people in his close network are conspiring without him knowing ? to me it does not seem plausible
> I am just wondering why you are not condemning the crimes of the West with the same fermity?
And how do you know that GP isn't? Why do you think that when one wants to condemn something he has to condemn, in the same breath, everything similar that has happened through whole human history?
But those are small nations. The fate of Russia over the next few years could easily determine the next hundred of geopolitics.