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Your first sentence has been true for the better part of a century, now. And - while the American government is undoubtedly less corrupt and more liberal than
by gloob 15y ago
Your first sentence has been true for the better part of a century, now. And - while the American government is undoubtedly less corrupt and more liberal than the Russian one - I don't really see the odds of America using nukes being significantly lower than the odds of Russia using them.
(Also: I'm not entirely clear on what you mean by "out of control" - plenty of countries engage in extrajudicial killings: Russia, obviously, but also Israel, Syria, America...)
- alecco 15y agoThat was a blatant assassination with very expensive (30M) and easily traceable radioactive material. It was a clear message to dissidents and western governments. The assassins even took a British Airways flight to leave a radioactive trail behind. And the material was identified to come from a specific nuclear plant in Russia. I've never heard of anything like this before.
- abcd_f 15y ago> I've never heard of anything like this before. Some reading material for you then :) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella
- alecco 15y agoThat's interesting and James Bond novel worthy. But I mean the message and the ruthlessness of showing off by government agencies.
- InclinedPlane 15y ago"Extra-judicial" in the context of warfare is one thing (killing people who kill your people or help do so), but assassination of mere critics of a government is an entirely separate kettle of fish. Litvinenko is the most prominent example of the absolute ruthlessness and lawlessness of Putin's regime but it is far from the only one (see also the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko and the many suspicious deaths of Russian journalists critical of Putin).