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There is probably an unspoken rule of geopolitics to the effect of "Don't start assassinating foreign dignitaries and heads of state unless you want everyone else to declare open season on you and yours." And it seems like we're getting closer to breaking that rule by the month.
If all our leaders, kings, politicians all vanished at once, I wonder how long it would be before us normal people even noticed.
Except Trump already did it to Iran, and we were likely saved from all out war by fucking COVID.
Everyone forgets about Solomeini
At some point, he'll piss off enough people that the world at large will just look the other way when it happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy
Bruh wtf
We have cameras and ICE now though
All of that footage is going to have been AI generated. I am going to have been there and I will say that it will have been impossible to tell where the bullets are going to have been coming from, just like how I was with Luigi Mangione at band practice all through December 2024.
At some point..? After that kid popped off at him in PA, all the offline people I know were just pretty universally either “shame he lived” or “meh”.
You can only be a hateful and bigoted bully for so long before even the ‘apolitical normie’ can connect the dots between Cheeto’s stochastic terrorism, and someone turning that energy back his way.
Yeah, they might have to get in line.
Maybe it can be a Murder on the Orient Express situation
The US has been regularly helping to assasinate Iranian foreigner dignitaries for years now, literally assasinsting many high ranking members of their government/military for years as well.
Common misconception. It's perfectly fine to do it in that direction.
Fatwa/Jihad, bad.
Crusade, good.
Right, right, now I remember, how silly of me.
Doubtful we'll see a powerful head of state call for such an act. More likely, we'll see some lone wolf who gets tied to a nation that immediately disavows them.
The lone wolf will be some domestic ex-maga mad that his VA benefits got cut. It will be interesting to watch the remaining group of clowns link Toothless Joe from rural Idaho to the Iranian regime. Maybe they can say he did it for hire.
Why do that when the "Blame Democrats" button is right there just itching to be pressed by a sweaty greasy finger yet again?
I mean, if that rule gets tossed out, I can only think of like 2 world leaders I'd be sad to see go. Russia is already actively trying to kill one of those.