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?
Putin has tried several times to have Zelensky assassinated. So his complaints about the assassination of Khamenei are hypocrisy.
Furthermore, Khamenei was an illegitimate ruler, responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in recent protests. Please don't pretend he was a normal, legitimate leader. His death is fully deserved, and the Iranian people deserve freedom.
The problem with Trump's attack is that he doesn't care about those people and has no plan for regime change. His attack will hurt a lot of people inside and outside Iran, but not accomplish anything beyond making a bad situation worse. But if he does manage to overthrow that regime, I will applaud it. It would be the one positive thing he'd accomplish. But that doesn't excuse the horrible things he's done, in bringing oppression to the US, destabilising the world, and of course his pedophilia and many other personal crimes.
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