Current Affairs Ukraine

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PeregrineT said:
Its because of MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. The last thing Putin actually wants to do, at a time where hes becoming a pariah to both the outside world and many in Russia who would like to see him gone permanently, is to set a precedent that he thinks assassination is okay. If he has Zelensky assassinated he probably feels he may not live out the month.
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Isn't MAD about nuclear conflict? As opposed to assassination?
 
Ivo said:
Isn't MAD about nuclear conflict? As opposed to assassination?
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Yes, Mutual Assured Destruction is usually used to refer to nuclear deterrence, and the same reason on a smaller scale of why Putin cant simply kill Zelensky. The deterrence of knowing that if he kills him his destruction is also almost certainly assured.
 
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catcherintherye said:
I dont think they franchise Pete!
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Please don't franchise Pete.


Aberblue said:
I'm sure they'd love to kill him, but he's most likely had advice as to how to avoid assassination.
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Genius

Aberblue said:
Poland in 1920; Finland in 1939; Hungary in 1956; Czechoslovakia in 1968; Afghanistan in 1979; Georgia in 2008.
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Add the Orange Order and Nazi Germany to the club for Russia as the three most evil organisations in history.

Spadge Vernacular said:
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Same type of person that voted for Brexit here so we can't boast the UK is much different
 
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