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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo we know precisely where Putin is in case we want to obliterate him?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)NT
drray23
(7,633 posts)he has not texted me lately.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)elleng
(130,964 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)David__77
(23,420 posts)
Hav
(5,969 posts)when nukes rain down on every country for an attempt to assassinate him.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)We were in agreement that Putin needs to be taken out and American govt knows where he is, they know where most of the enemies are. Stop him NOW! I bet Putin's cronies would be relieved, at least in private.
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TygrBright
(20,760 posts)We don't do much of that.
We can, on occasion. (Vide OBL.)
But talking about "obliterating" a dictator with nuclear capability is a poor strategy.
Better strategy: Get his own people to repudiate and disempower him.
Whatever that takes.
helpfully,
Bright
highplainsdem
(49,000 posts)ChicagoRonin
(630 posts)However, we don't think like he does. Meaning we won't bomb the whole country just to take him out.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)We're awash in conflicting intelligence.
Better render all four sites uninhabitable, just to make sure.
Irish_Dem
(47,124 posts)JasonMain
(79 posts)doc03
(35,344 posts)byronius
(7,395 posts)I believe there may come a time, after we have learned whatever terrible lesson is coming, that future generations will think it prudent to quickly extinguish men like this one.
'National Interest' and 'Not Our Purview' and 'Sensible Negotiation' are all well and good until a man attacks others under the cover of a weapon of mass destruction. That act should be met with as immediate and complete a reaction as possible.
I hope the Russians themselves end this. But as the body count rises and then the radioactive cloud spreads -- history clearly defines what is required.