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Would Killing Putin End the Ukraine War? More Like World War III
National Security Journal ^ | 6/4/2025 | Andrew Latham

Posted on 06/04/2025 5:14:43 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

It is a fantasy that just will not die. Another Kremlin security scare, another flash of speculation online, another round of breathless commentary. Maybe someone is finally trying to kill Vladimir Putin. Maybe that is what it will take to end the war. One clean shot. One collapsing regime. Peace at last.

But if that idea is serious – if we are not just indulging a lurid Western daydream – then we need to ask a much harder question.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalsecurityjournal.org ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: agitprop; colonelklank; letstry; miamiscum; onlyknowiftheydo; panicporn; psychomaximus; putin; russia; russiansuicide; snippitydoodah; thetussee; ukraine; vladtheimploder; worldwariii; wouldnthurt; zeepersdontcare; zeepwarmustcontinue
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To: Jonty30

I kind of feel the same about America. That is why it breaks my heart that so many Americans hate the good in it.


21 posted on 06/04/2025 6:11:18 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

They are responsible for him. They helped make him.


22 posted on 06/04/2025 6:12:42 AM PDT by dforest
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To: whyilovetexas111

This article brought to you by the Russian Secret Service.


23 posted on 06/04/2025 6:12:52 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Yeah.. I’ll pass on this one.


24 posted on 06/04/2025 6:14:30 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Paladin2

>> “When did the Z Man get re-elected?” <<

He didn’t. He won’t allow elections by using martial law.

Even Klitschko, the Mayor of Kyiv is now in battle with the little dictator.
The president (dictator) has used martial law to appoint a rival military administration in the capital to mirror the mayor’s responsibilities.)

https://www.thetimes.com/article/88348779-4002-4bf7-92f1-0321fe69b85a


25 posted on 06/04/2025 6:20:18 AM PDT by ANKE69 ( Beware of zeeper doxxing )
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To: whyilovetexas111

When Putin dies (by assassin or otherwise)... The power vacuum and civil war that ensues will consume Russia, and they will be too busy fixing their broken autocratic society, to be bothered fighting a useless and nonsensical war against the Ukraine.


26 posted on 06/04/2025 6:26:55 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BitWielder1

That has been my argument since day 1.

Magnitude of “worse” is perhaps more apropos.


27 posted on 06/04/2025 6:31:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Forget your sarc tag? /s

28 posted on 06/04/2025 6:32:33 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Ikeon

To answer your rhetorical question: by over a 70% of national vote, that’s how Zelensky was elected.


29 posted on 06/04/2025 6:43:15 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: exinnj

Elected by over 70% of the vote..I’m guessing the Ukraine has a bunch of liberals then. Or it was stolen. How much U.S. interference?


30 posted on 06/04/2025 6:45:58 AM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: Eli Kopter
I am sure that Putin has a target on Zelensky also.

Until about a month ago I would have disagreed, but not I'm not so sure.

Removing Zelenski from the board would solve a lot of problems

31 posted on 06/04/2025 7:01:55 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: whyilovetexas111

US disengagement from both sides. Isolate Russia with tough sanctions and bring as many others into the sanctions against Russia. Europe cannot buy energy from Russia.
I don’t care which side claims they’re right or who started or us to blame for tge the war. All I know is US can’t be sucked into wasting blood and treasure.


32 posted on 06/04/2025 7:03:20 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: mac_truck

I agree with you, but there are always unintended consequences.


33 posted on 06/04/2025 7:45:42 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: MeganC
If anyone kills Putin it will be another Russian.

Bingo!

Regards,

34 posted on 06/04/2025 7:52:25 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: whyilovetexas111
There are two sides to this war. Real sides, not rhetorical sides.

1) Putin's aim is to grab as much territory as possible.
2) Zelenskyy's bosses want to prolong the profitable war as much as possible.

NATO ruling class types seemingly have no interest (or are actively opposed) to
preserving the citizens of their own countries. Why suppose they care anything
about Ukrainians?

35 posted on 06/04/2025 7:56:18 AM PDT by Salman (Avoid foreign entanglements.)
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To: Eli Kopter

I think the russhie are not targeting the Z for the same reason the allies weren’t all in on getting rid of Hitl@r. The decisions he makes are so asinine and self defeating that getting rid of him might lead to someone more competent.


36 posted on 06/04/2025 8:34:10 AM PDT by ichabod1 (lets change our name to the United States of Trump!)
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To: ichabod1

I hope you are right. There are some in the West that consider him a loose end when the accounting is done for all the funds that were given to him.


37 posted on 06/04/2025 8:41:46 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: whyilovetexas111
Just the opposite.

If there is frustration in Russia, it's because Putin has been too restrained in conducting the war.

38 posted on 06/04/2025 8:52:17 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: desertsolitaire

They would have. They took out Yamamoto given the chance. They would have waxed Hitler in a heartbeat. There would have been no lack of volunteers.


39 posted on 06/04/2025 9:41:20 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Vermont Lt

Macalaster is a liberal arts safety school for Ivy applicants.

And I mean, liberal.


40 posted on 06/04/2025 9:54:30 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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