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"interesting new phenomenon" I would argue, directly targeting the leaders of another state is a "interesting new phenomenon".

• Shank 8mo ago
  This has happened for thousands of years.
  • lukan 8mo ago
    Yes, but I am currently not aware of any pre WW2 events.
    • ratrace 8mo ago
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    • lukan 8mo ago
      Typo (not "pre"-> "after"). I am not aware of any case where a nation state openly assasinated the leader of another state in the more recent human affairs till WW2. I know of the attempts towards Castro, but apart from that?
• gmuslera 8mo ago
  Sleepwalking into a dystopia that would had made Aldous Huxley and George Orwell to blush falls into the interesting arena.
• JorgeGT 8mo ago
  The Ryan Doctrine.