• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The US (at least by executive order which can always be rescinded) has an official policy not to assassinate foreign leaders:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11905

    (See also EO 12036 and EO 12333 for confirming the policy)

    Placing a bounty on Putin would probably violate that EO…

    More importantly, the US is really fucking hoping Putin dies of old age or is voted out domestically because direct confrontations may result in Putin pushing ze button and launching ze nukes.

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      3 months ago

      ze button and launching ze nukes.

      But I’m Le tired.

      Have a nap, then FIRE ZE MISSILE!

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      3 months ago

      Weird line considering what we’re willing to do to nation states to keep their citizens from cooperating socially rather than competing against one another to keep their resource extraction rights open to our capitalists for maximum exploitation.