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angrychair

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Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:56 PM Yesterday

Nothing to Cheer About [View all]

Some here may be want to celebrate the death of a truly horrible person but there is a bigger picture here I would caution you about.

That is twice, in less than a year, that the US has unilaterally decided to remove another country's leader through violence.

That makes the US an existential threat to the sovereignty of any nation that the US decides it doesn't like. Think about it, the US doesn't like that France is blocking a trade treaty that heavily favors only US businesses, France will rightly believe they are in danger.
France will now believe, based on the evidence of what the US has already done, that their leader may be vulnerable to assassination or kidnapping, to remove him as an obstacle to US interests.

A country that goes around unilaterally deciding to kidnap or murder the leaders of other countries is a clear and present danger to the stability of the whole world.

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Nothing to Cheer About [View all] angrychair Yesterday OP
Do you think the US will attack France? Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #1
Yes, I do think they would attack France angrychair Yesterday #5
Kidnapping/killing the leader of a NATO nuclear power is indeed crazy talk. Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #6
I have zero doubts they would angrychair Yesterday #8
It's not a metter of cahones MadameButterfly Yesterday #24
I do not believe he will attack a nuclear NATO nation. Nt Fiendish Thingy 23 hrs ago #27
which of krasnov's "advisors" would tell him "no??" rampartd 3 hrs ago #33
The ones that don't want their families to die in a nuclear war Fiendish Thingy 3 hrs ago #34
By this logic, we are incentivizing all countries MadameButterfly Yesterday #22
And what if... 2naSalit Yesterday #2
Too difficult lame54 Yesterday #4
I think... 2naSalit Yesterday #7
That's hardly the point choie Yesterday #15
The point is, would that be the right thing to do and would you support it? Iggo 22 hrs ago #32
The first place that needs to be bombed is a home in Palm Beach named mar a lago on a Saturday afternoon. kimbutgar Yesterday #13
Hell, even I would nominate them for the Nobel Peace Prize if they got rid of Trump. Bev54 Yesterday #23
Cuba is next lame54 Yesterday #3
I was thinking the exact same thing yliza Yesterday #25
I'll shed no tears for the ayotolla but... Takket Yesterday #9
An Iranian civil war is a real possibility. roamer65 Yesterday #10
That's not my point angrychair Yesterday #11
I can't believe anyone on this board choie Yesterday #16
How far have we fallen? Cirsium Yesterday #17
I wish someone would liberate us from Trump and his ass kissing goon squad. Initech Yesterday #12
Why does this feel like this could end up being like what happened to Libya? tornado34jh Yesterday #14
DURec leftstreet Yesterday #18
Maybe I'm nuts, hoosierspud Yesterday #19
It would not be Mossad. It would be wnylib 3 hrs ago #35
I just made a statement that said basically the same thing slightlv Yesterday #20
I'm worried about how quiet Russia and China have been and what's been negotiated? Ilikepurple Yesterday #21
Right. Nothing. ancianita 23 hrs ago #26
I wish that were true angrychair 23 hrs ago #29
I hear you. But ancianita 23 hrs ago #30
Horrible person indeed. Though seems to me B.See 23 hrs ago #28
Agree JustAnotherGen 22 hrs ago #31
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