What if they assassinate Zelensky

[boston bean]

Which they have said they want to do.

I am curious. What then?

Sanctions are not going to stop Ukrainian suffering.

[iemanja]

1. Count on it

I don't think they'll do anything other than sanctions for Ukraine.

[AlexSFCA]

2. that's pretty much the plan, or bring him to "justice"

their goal is to instill the new “government”. All bordering countries are endangered by these actions.

[Igel]

13. Yup.

Right, put the Jewish Russian-speaker-hating Russophone Nazi Jew on trial.

The corporatist Putin misses irony.

Or maybe the Poo-Bear (punning on Vinni-pukh, "Winnie the Pooh", but meaning actual poo) has had a dozen too many microstrokes.

Or perhaps kuru? Or BSE? One can only hope.

[MFM008]

3. The same thing

Could happen to putin.
Dont think he doesnt think of it.

[texasfiddler]

4. Ukranian people voted 91% to become an independent State long before Zelensky.

This goes beyond one political leader. For the record, I do not believe he will be assassinated. He is savvy.

[whathehell]

7. News reports say he is in an "undisclosed location"

and I hope to God he stays tthe duration.

[Igel]

14. Ukraine has a serious problem.

It has a home-grown "5th column." A smallish percentage of the population really is ur-Stalinist, and another small %age rather likes the idea of being part of a triumphant, powerful Russia.

Then there are those who, when push comes to shove, will think, "I can betray X and save my people--and be a hero for my cowardice, even if it's not recognized." A certain percentage will always think that it's better to suffer in public humiliation, yet be fed and clothed, than stand up and be willing to die or be seriously hurt, financially or physically, for one's "beliefs".

Had a student years ago (in 2015, to be less vague). Russophone. Identified as Ukrainian. Dripped Ukr tokens--backpack with Ukr flag, jacket with Ukr trident on it. Adopted by Americans, in my class. Loaned him books in Russian to help him keep his Russian fluent and improving. Was going to "visit" his birth mother in Ukraine, he said he told his parents. In fact, he said, he was going to enlist to fight the Russians in the Donbas. I told him not to, he was barely legal to do so in Ukraine. He was in the system early in the next school year, then he vanished. Don't know if he was killed or if he just stayed because he was barely legal.

Few former students make me wonder, "Gee, I wonder if they were killed by Putin's zeroes?"

[BlueSpot]

5. I am sure their constitution has provision for that

I don't know what it is but there has to be some order of succession. And I bet the first several are all in separate secure, non-disclosed locations.

[CentralMass]

6. Putin is going to do whatever he wants.

[IcyPeas]

8. or poison him?

[a kennedy]

11. Yah, I know they did try to poison him.......

[ecstatic]

9. If he does that, then what would stop the US from

assassinating him? Anything goes, right?

[Nevilledog]

10. Zelensky statement

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
In a video statement, Ukrainian President Zelensky says the enemy has marked him as the number one target. "They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. We have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kyiv." Says he will remain.
4:16 PM · Feb 24, 2022