• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I mean…

    Honestly the whole “assassinating a leader is against the rules” has always felt ass backwards when the alternative is a shit ton of people with essentially no say in the conflict dying.

    Let me take it back to Hammarubi.

    All these shitty world leaders can just take turns killing themselves like the bloody Sneeches, until we eventually end up with leaders who think peace is worth a shot.

    To me, that sounds like a self correcting and sustainable system. If a country’s government starts a war, the most likely result would be that political leader getting merc’d by the government of the country they attacked.

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        22 days ago

        The only reasons I can see that monster is still breathing is the power vacuum left behind would make the situation worse, and the US would royally fuck anyone who tried it.

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      22 days ago

      The problem with assassinating leaders is that it turns the population into a headless mob, and plenty of innocents suffer tremendously anyways.

      Modern military technology has made such concerns much less important, as any conflict is increasingly devastating.

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        21 days ago

        Yerp. Killing the leader leaves a power vacuum depending on the structure of the government. Power vacuums are the quickest way to a civil war.

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      22 days ago

      It’d actually be a nice tourist destination, food is great, glad I got to go many years ago in between murder campaigns.

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          22 days ago

          Bombing valid military targets.

          I mean if you can’t even read the headline…

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            21 days ago

            Bombing a valid military target is not a war crime. A war crime is something like killing prisoners or civilians. A war crime is like bombing civilian targets(like Russia does). A war crime is like when you starve a population with a blockade.

            Please let me know what Iran did as a war crime, im really really interested.

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    22 days ago

    Tough getting a spoon of their own medicine. Although the mullahs claim they were actually targeting something nearby, while the IDF just claims every hospital, school, or whatever to be Hamas HQ.