Russia wants Zelensky alive also so he can be tried for war crimes.
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I get why Russia wants this, and I hope Russia gets what they want, but they might have to settle for lower-level flunkies.
“By ending Prohibition, the Congress implicitly deemed Americans able to individually assess and manage the risk presented by their alcohol use. People were permitted to feel hungover after drinking and/or to gain weight from alcohol consumption. Governments and individuals fund treatment programs for people who drink too much. If treatment fails, we accept that some alcoholics will become ill and die; even if—like me right now—such outcomes, or the prospects of them, sadden us. The prevailing ethos regarding alcohol use is “You do you.”
Why didn’t American policymakers analogously see, in March 2020, that it was as impossible to crush a virus as it was to prohibit alcohol consumption, and that the social costs of zero Covid tolerance would far exceed the benefits of restructuring society? Why didn’t American governments allow individuals to manage their own Covid risks, just as it allows people to manage their own alcohol consumption? If many consider Prohibitionists the Flat-Earthers of their time, why shouldn’t the Lockdowners/Maskers/Testers/Vaxxers be seen as latter-day successors in this historical line of epic simple-mindedness?”
CORONAMANIA, PROHIBITION AND THE FOLLY OF ZERO TOLERANCE
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/coronamania-prohibition-and-the-folly