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Making kill lists of foreign heads of state. Normal country things
I mean, it sounds pretty normal actually. I 100% guarantee the US has a list.
"But the US does it" isn't really making a case for it being normal. America is the most bloodthirsty nation on the planet, of course we have kill lists.
Remember the playing card deck for the war on terror?
I sure do
My ex roommate was going to throw out a nightstand but gave it to me instead. He had a commercial version of this deck in there and I decided to keep it. Still have it.
You ever play Poker with it?
I have literally never used it to play cards at all lol. Just sits one of my junk boxes.
Honestly I'd be more shocked if there weren't at least a couple
Oh yeah I bet there's a bunch of agencies and organizations in the US government with their own individual kill lists
We have like fifteen
The FBI has its most wanted list, plus their private kill list
The NSA, CIA, DHS, DOD also have kill lists
Every military engagement the U.S. has entered in the last 100 years has had kill lists
I'm probably missing a few agencies and their shit
It's like Wild West times, only I can't buy cocaine and a Gatling gun off the corner store
This is hosted by the CIA so I don't know whether it's Ukraine's list or America's.
A little of column A and a little of column B
It’s one thing to have a list of low level civvies to kill, it’s quite another to have a publicly available kill list that includes heads of state
too good for kill lists, America has a disposition matrix
How could China do this?
How is this any different than Nazi and Japanese scientists obscuring their serial killer tendencies with scientific jargon and processes at the camps?
I really want to see someone with the balls to make a Nightstalker-esque movie about some lanyard prick
The US wants to kill people, but they tend not to publish lists of them in this manner. This seems most analogous to the fatwas for killing people, because otherwise it's usually a "most wanted" list that doesn't specify killing and often wants to take the target alive (for strategic reasons, not moral ones, of course)
Unlike the Ukrainians the American empire has the capability to carry out actual assassinations and don't have to resort to something as pathetic as posting a list of people there mad at online.