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this manner of casually talking about killing a person as if it could be a normal subject is very strange. Are you american?


The topic of assassination is very much a live one at the moment. A friend of mine said to me only a week ago: "Where is Brutus when you need him?"


that's what I suspected. You're American I guess ? In this part of the world this subject is taboo (and rightly so)


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.


My Russian neighbors bring it up every time the topic comes up.


Time to remind that friend what happened after Brutus. Or Lorenzino/Lorenzaccio, for that matter.


The "Are you American" part subtly but purposely suggests something about Americans.


A casual observer of history


Putin has personally ordered the killing and torture of thousands of innocent people for his own enrichment and power. Spare me your crocodile tears


I'm genuinely puzzeled. I don't think anyone thinks it's possible to kill putin, so I'm wondering about all this appeal to murder.


You expect him to die in his sleep? It's a kleptocracy: the goons surrounding the oligarchy will kill him the femtosecond it's expedient.


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



How about the innocent who were killed and tortured in US war against Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Siria and former Yugoslavia?

I am not trying to justify Putin's crimes, I am just wondering why you are not condemning the crimes of the West with the same fermity?

A human life is a human life. A child killed by US bombs matters as such as child killed by Russian bombs.


> 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?




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