re: #123 Ming5000

When you are at war, is the top leader immune? I don’t know what rules we are playing by. The definition of “war” has become muddled over time. Countries have figured out it is best not to say “War!”. Police actions, liberations, are all war.
Hasn’t Putin been at war with the US since at least the run up to Trump’s win in 2016?
Putin seems to think decapitating a country is fair game. Is it? I couldn’t find a quick answer online.

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the CIA had to be reformed so as to stop them from killing leaders, not because they were bad at it, but because they kept killing democratically elected folks in order to install various autocratic puppets. If we actually assassinated Putin so that a democracy could flourish, it would, I’m pretty sure, be a first. There was no law against killing Hitler on the international conventions of war, I don’t think. I mean, several movies have played off that.