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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
(45,019 posts)NT
drray23
(7,658 posts)he has not texted me lately.
LisaL
(45,019 posts)elleng
(131,864 posts)dchill
(38,702 posts)David__77
(23,774 posts)
Hav
(5,969 posts)when nukes rain down on every country for an attempt to assassinate him.
BigmanPigman
(51,775 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
(20,806 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
(49,279 posts)ChicagoRonin
(631 posts)However, we don't think like he does. Meaning we won't bomb the whole country just to take him out.
Sneederbunk
(14,372 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,884 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,261 posts)We're awash in conflicting intelligence.
Better render all four sites uninhabitable, just to make sure.
Irish_Dem
(49,863 posts)JasonMain
(79 posts)doc03
(35,554 posts)byronius
(7,426 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.