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This and Western AF have gotten me into so many good artists. Good find!

I mean the war wouldn't end just because you killed the other side's leader, they have other people who can step in, so it's not really about slow walking winning. But both Putin and Zelensky want an end to the war in which they don't personally get blown up. So yes they'll let a lot of other people die instead to let the war play out without risking their own lives.

Ukraine has, probably through the help of NATO/US intelligence, the capability to target some of Russia's most significant and expensive military assets with things like drones and sabotage. If the gloves come off because Zelensky gets got, Putin and basically all the high ranking officials in Russia could reasonably expect to be targeted in response.

What I'm saying is they appear to have an unspoken agreement not to do that currently because it's in each person's best interest.

I think killing leadership is a Pandora's box, especially given the high profile bombings deep in Russian territory that they were very clearly not prepared to defend themselves against.

"Nobody else can be trusted to run any of this stuff like I can. I'm essential to the running of this system and can never go away or even take time to consider that I might ever stop."

Also I think a lot of them hate their kids, hate their spouses, don't like their lives and don't want to be home alone dwelling on how alienated and empty they are.

Brunch WILL be served. Order will be restored once we peacefully return to the marginally slower rate of systematic killings of the centrists.

You literally came out swinging at someone who said what amounts to things you have conceded talking with me. You called the genocide milquetoast centrism. I don't know what else to call that.

I'm not attacking anyone. You're getting all angry at a person for pointing out that we already turned on the meat grinder centuries ago. I think it actually matters that people not treat Trump as an anomaly that can be neutralized by dealing with him as a single person. Going back to what preceded this guy will not be fixing the problem.

I think a decent country should label the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of people as alarming and a sign of an evil political system at work. A difference in scale would still be a tragedy but you couldn't really say that extermination is milquetoast centrism in reasonable company. If your country is throwing people in a meat grinder, to use your words, you're already in a point where it would be appropriate for someone to ask:

What rise? The country has been fascist since before anyone here was born. Those fascists have been enabled by people like you cheering on politicians while they put people in concentration camps at the border, strip away basic rights such as abortion while never even allowing others like healthcare, and outright commit genocide. Be honest with yourself: you don't hate Trump because he's a fascist, you hate him because he's not a "polite" fascist.

Ah so hundreds of thousands of systemic killings is milquetoast? You goofball.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were systematically killed under the watch of the most recent Democrat you silly goose.