What right will we have to criticize Putin if he kills Ukrainian president Zelenskyy?

From a legal standpoint, the US has illegally killed the leader of Iran in an illegal war which our leaders are not even criticizing. They are just accepting that the US takes out a leader they do not like, thereby destabilizing a nation of 93 million people.

International law does not allow this, but if we do not uphold international law, what boundaries do we have left to limit dictators like Putin?

@randahl

2 things

1. that also means we can kill putin

2. there's all sorts of countries, some obeying international law, some not. that the usa turned into a vile criminal country doesn't mean the law abiding ones should be impressed. also, russia was already not one of the law abiding countries, and never felt limits

it has already tried to kill zelensky a number of times

there's a wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

conservative estimates are 2-3 tries. up to ~12 tries

Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy - Wikipedia

@benroyce @randahl It also opens Trump to assassination by any of the foreign regimes. And he slighted quite a few already. His only hope is competence of Secret Service/CIA because wider international community will do nothing past expressing “deep concern”.

@pointlessone @benroyce @randahl

I'm waiting for someone to honor their oath to the Constitution.