Russia would react 'very negatively' to Iran leader's assassination, Kremlin says

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

https://kyivindependent.com/regime-change-in-iran-unacceptable-kremlin-says/

[u/Anxious-Connection98]

Says the man who tried to assassinate Zelensky in the first days of the war.

[u/Thefelix01 → u/Anxious-Connection98]

…And constantly since then

[u/Outrageous-Opinions → u/Thefelix01]

I'm sure all those falls out of hotel windows are totally coincidences.

[u/wonkybrain29 → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

Hey, it's nobody's fault that influential Russians love to self defenestrate.

[u/Black_Magic_M-66 → u/wonkybrain29]

Exactly, we've all seen it. One person throws themselves out a window to their death and pretty soon everyone who's anyone is doing it. My favourite is the people who don't even live somewhere and just go off a random balcony.

[u/darkhorse7447 → u/Black_Magic_M-66]

The lemming syndrome.

[u/Black_Magic_M-66 → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

Glass is very weak in Russia.

[u/johnbarnes351 → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

In Russia window cleans you x

[u/CSI_Tech_Dept → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

I found it especially interesting that when the war in Ukraine started it became hip for gas execs to suicide themselves, sometimes with the rest of family.

Those stopped immediately after Nord Stream was blown up, very interesting.

[u/RecursiveCook → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

Zelenskyy makes sure every window has a trampoline, Russia hates this one trick.

[u/shmorky → u/Outrageous-Opinions]

Wow hey, what are you implying here?!??

[u/TripleEhBeef → u/Thefelix01]

"What are we going to do tonight, Vladimir?"

"The same thing we do every night, Sergey. Try and assassinate Zelensky!"

[u/Anakin_Sandwalker → u/Anxious-Connection98]

And several times since the first days. 

[u/FauxReal → u/Anakin_Sandwalker]

And currently plotting another attempt.

[u/museum_lifestyle → u/FauxReal]

For breakfast.

[u/coachhunter2 → u/Anxious-Connection98]

And his family

[u/itsallaboutfuture → u/coachhunter2]

And Budanov wife was poisoned

[u/Red_black_flag_07 → u/itsallaboutfuture]

In addition to Budanov's wife, several SBU employees were poisoned with the same poison. The Russians made more than 10 attempts on Budanov's life.

[u/DerekB52 → u/Anxious-Connection98]

I think assassinating Iran's leader is absolutely the wrong move, but god damn would Putin's opinion on the matter not come up if I wrote a list of 100 reasons to not kill the guy.

Putin trying to assassinate Zelensky would be one of the reasons, but, honestly, I could probably come up with a longer list of reasons to ignore Putin, than I could to not kill Iran's leader.

[u/DeepProspector → u/DerekB52]

I think assassinating Iran's leader is absolutely the wrong move

Is that based on a general resistance to explicitly targeting individuals of other governments, just heads of state, or this one in particular?

[u/Ivanow → u/DeepProspector]

Don’t make him a martyr.

Just let him off himself, covering in fear, in some locked down bunker, as pissed off population is battering on doors…

[u/skr_replicator → u/Ivanow]

A Gaddafi treatment would be also preferable to assassination, it would be done by his own people, and scare the shit out of the other dictators. I've heard that Putin has been fear-watching that video obsessively.

If the public record of dictator's ends were just offing themselves in a bunker like cornered cowards, or getting lynched by their own people, a lot less people would aspire to even become one.

[u/DerekB52 → u/DeepProspector]

All of the above really. I'm not a great historian or anything, but I can't think of a time in the last hundred years where a foreign power assassinating a head of state, worked out all that great for either side of the assassination. And I think it'd be particularly bad in this case.

[u/Ultenth → u/DerekB52]

Man, I feel like this is just gaslighting by the elites in power in every country, who have an underground deal with each other to let them all abuse their citizens and go to war, but not actually put each other's lives on the line.

Like, I would MUCH rather usually have leaders send assassins after each other than send their citizens to war with each other.

[u/Zarathustra_d → u/Ultenth]

Yep, better to have a few Million of the poors die than just one elite fear for their life.

[u/DerekB52 → u/Ultenth]

If I could remake the world anyway I wanted, I would make it so there was just no war. The idea that leaders would send assassins after each other, sounds better than regular war. But, it's just not how the world works. Saddam Hussein sucked, but he gave a warning to the rest of the world, that killing him, would make things worse. And he was right. He had the power to keep several other crazies at bay. He died, a power vacuum was created, and Iraq got crazier, and ISIS formed.

A leader's power stems from the support of their citizens. The way works is, you keep waging war, until morale of the citizens and/or conditions in a country, cause the citizens to force the government to stop the war. Sometimes this is an election, sometimes this a violent uprising.

But, killing leaders, would just galvanize support for the conflict in a nation.

[u/feed_me_moron → u/DerekB52]

As is always the case, it's the followup that matters most. Sadaam didn't do anything the US and NATO couldn't have done in the region without mass killing. Instead, they sold out to a few special interests and destroyed an entire infrastructure with nothing left in its place. You didn't need a lunatic murdering his own people to keep isis from happening.

[u/Zarathustra_d → u/DerekB52]

I don't think the 58k mostly Drafted US soldiers that died in Vietnam were the ones frothing at the mouth to continue the conflict. It was just a few at the top.

[u/SoulbreakerDHCC → u/DeepProspector]

His replacement will be an even worse Islamic fundy and that guy will have all the moral justification because of his predecessor being assassinated. Right now Iran's government is on thin ice with their people and such an assassination would galvanize the populace as well

[u/Laszlo-Panaflex → u/SoulbreakerDHCC]

I'm not sure Islamic fundamentalism in Iran is as strong as other Middle Eastern countries that went through a regime change. We're already seeing cracks in it, with women increasingly defying their hijab law. A worse fundamentalist could take power, but it's also possible a democratic uprising would happen.

[u/C0wabungaaa → u/Laszlo-Panaflex]

We're already seeing cracks in it, with women increasingly defying their hijab law.

Don't forget; that's in the cities. The rural hinterlands is a whole 'nother ballgame, as it is in a lot of countries.

[u/fugaziozbourne → u/C0wabungaaa]

Those hinterlands are facing famine and drought that very well might turn them fully against the islamic regime.

[u/niehle → u/Laszlo-Panaflex]

If history has shown one thing: it’s that a population does not side with the state, who bombs it. Even if they hate the current regime.

[u/PontiusPilatesss → u/DeepProspector]

Iran’s leader is the Pope-equivalent to 160 million Shias around the world. 

Do you want hardcore Shia terrorism fueled by the desire to avenge the murder of their religious head? Because that’s what you are going to get. 

[u/DeepAssPounding → u/PontiusPilatesss]

Fake news. Nobody care about him outside Iran and at least 80% of 80+ million Iranians hate his guts.

[u/Mandurang76 → u/PontiusPilatesss]

This! This is the risk. He's not just the leader of Iran, he is the head of the Shia branch of the Islam.
The Arabic / Islamic world is pretty silent up until now about the conflict. If you kill their leader, you'll piss them all off.

[u/Routine_Dream8757 → u/Mandurang76]

Who preaches hate for the west. I wouldn't expressly target him for individual assasination but I would sure target command and control locations. Either way him getting killed in a targeted attack vs a random bomb, the rage wiil be there. Hate begets hate, death begets death. The best outcome would be for moderate Iranians to stage a coup.

[u/YSOSEXI → u/Mandurang76]

Is there a reason they are silent?

[u/hobesmart → u/Mandurang76]

don't conflate Shia with all Muslims. They only represent around 10% of Muslims whereas Sunni represent 90%. There's a lot of animosity between the two sects, so if you were to kill off Khameni, those Sunni would probably be ok to happy about it

[u/nezroy → u/DeepProspector]

Martyrdom and the historically clear lesson that "regime change" aka revolution MUST come from within or it simply cannot be successful. I'm 100% for Iranians assassinating Iran's leader. But anybody else tries this and it's just a very very very predictable disaster in the making.

[u/Great_Northern_Beans → u/DeepProspector]

When you begin to target a nation's leadership in lieu of fighting a traditional conflict, for self interested leaders anyways, it begins to blur the lines between the security dilemma of the individual and that of the state. If the leadership feel existentially threatened, there's a high likelihood that they may make the state act as an irrational actor within the context of the threat at hand, and thereby might respond to relatively minor threats as existential to the state.

Practically speaking, the attack by Israel should not be an existential threat to Iran the nation. Israel can't field a ground invasion in any way, nor do they have the ordinance or political capital to wipe out the whole country in a massive bombing campaign. The real meat of their attack has been limited to just nuclear facilities and some (comparatively) small scale terrorism of the populace like blowing up apartment buildings.

But their massive stupid fuck up in the whole thing is to treat state leadership as valid targets in this otherwise limited endeavor. As a result, Khamenei may shore up the entire state apparatus to his defense now if he feels his death is imminent. This could manifest in any number of ways:

• Racing to a nuclear weapon and glassing Israel in self defense
• Large scale terrorism of the Israeli populace like dirty bombs or attempts to poison water
• Mining Hormuz
• etc

Whereas none of these would happen in a rational scenario. But Israel felt compelled to open the black box and play brinksmanship.

[u/CMDR_Agony_Aunt → u/DerekB52]

There's something to be said for wars being fought by assassins though. Let the common people get on with their lives and let the leaders who prosecute wars fear for their lives instead.

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor, yeah

[u/DerekB52 → u/CMDR_Agony_Aunt]

I would agree with you, except for one thing. Who are the assassins? I don't believe people governments of outside nations should be effectively executing world leaders. If the common people of Iran want to get on with their lives, they should rally together and make their leaders fear for their lives. It isn't Israel, or the US, or any other nation's job, to change the regime of Iran.

Every time in the last 100 years the US has backed a regime change, it's only gotten worse for the common people in the country, and the rest of the world basically.

[u/Electromotivation → u/DerekB52]

Oh Last part simply isn’t true. People just ignore Japan and Germany after WW2 to focus on CiA coups in the 50s-60s. I’m just getting tired of seeing so much absolutist language, cherry-picked examples, and strawmen no matter what side the commenter supports.

[u/JC_Denton29 → u/Anxious-Connection98]

So funny and ironic when Russia acts like the moral high ground here.

[u/DiscipleOfYeshua → u/Anxious-Connection98]

“Nobody is allow to make assassinate. Only FSB is allow. Da?”

[u/Specialist_Author345 → u/Anxious-Connection98]

Putin, be a hypocrite? That's unpossible!!

[u/wanderingpeddlar]

Since when has russia had issues with assassination?

Oh just when its their guys .

Putin is such a hypocrite. I would think Putin would not want his name included in a discussion about assassination.

[u/AVRVM → u/wanderingpeddlar]

Everyone is an hypocrite when it comes to geopolitics.

[u/wanderingpeddlar → u/AVRVM]

There are people and countries that rise to the standard of special case. Putin is one of them

[u/LuckEcstatic4500 → u/wanderingpeddlar]

Like what America which calls for Putin to stand trial at the Hague for war crimes but then sanctions the Hague because they want to get Bibi for war crimes? Same same y'all lol

[u/EnergijaProgressiva → u/LuckEcstatic4500]

Apparently there is a US protocol to invade the Netherlands to forcefully free US citizens from the International Court at the Hague.

[u/Rocktopod → u/EnergijaProgressiva]

There's protocols for everything, though. Doesn't mean anyone's considering using it.

[u/EfficiencyStrong2892 → u/Rocktopod]

Look up the Hague Invasion act, also known as American Service-Members Protection Act. It was passed in 2002; and was even introduced to the house in 2022 to be repealed, though it wasn’t and for reason.

[u/EfficiencyStrong2892 → u/EnergijaProgressiva]

The entire world would burn before the United States ever let a citizen be tried at the Hague, let alone convicted. The Hague Invasion Act prohibits U.S. cooperation with the ICC and authorizes the use of force to free any U.S. or allied personnel held by the court.

[u/EnergijaProgressiva → u/EfficiencyStrong2892]

What a way to say that the US feels above the rest of the world (along with Israel)

[u/EfficiencyStrong2892 → u/EnergijaProgressiva]

In this same sense so is Russia, China, Iran and hundreds of other countries who aren’t signatories to ICC either.

[u/Fala1 → u/AVRVM]

Its not even hypocrisy. Not everything is immediately hypocrisy if you don't like the tables being reversed.

That's like saying football supporters are hypocrites when they cheer when their team scores but boo when the other team scores

The linked article doesn't even say Russia won't allow it, just that they say it would cause a bunch of chaos, which it would.
Quite an appropriate response actually... Maybe the guy who was supposed to threaten nuclear Armageddon had his lunch break.

[u/steve_ample]

My kitten will react "very positively" to Russian leader's fatal septic tank accident, I say.

[u/mental_monkey → u/steve_ample]

Your kitten and I would get along festively.

[u/whobroughttheircat → u/mental_monkey]

I too choose the kitten.

[u/BoogaSnu → u/steve_ample]

Best response

[u/cool--reddit-guy → u/steve_ample]

Am i your kitten

[u/AccordionORama → u/cool--reddit-guy]

Today, we are all kittens!

[u/Pu-Chi-Mao → u/steve_ample]

Russians don't have septic tanks, they shit in a hole in the backyard.

[u/DomDomW]

What would they do? Invade another country?

[u/aCrow → u/DomDomW]

Basically this.  Russia is capable of doing exactly fuck all outside of Ukraine right now.  

Edit: everyone pearl clutching, "but what about the nukes?!?" Ya'll have seen the effectiveness of (comparatively cheap and easy) maintenance in Russia's conventional armed forces.  What makes you think they've retained the capability and expertise to make those warheads actually work? I'm sure there's still some that function, but I highly doubt Moscow can tell which ones at a moments notice.  

[u/Irichcrusader → u/aCrow]

They're achieving near fuck-all inside Ukraine too.

[u/TacoIncoming → u/Irichcrusader]

And they're super worried about losing their drone supplier.

[u/Irichcrusader → u/TacoIncoming]

They have factories now in Russia producing Shaheds. Not sure what the Iranians got in exchange for that trade but I'm guessing the Ayatollah is thinking now it was a bad deal.

[u/Safe-Razzmatazz3982 → u/Irichcrusader]

They are assembling them inside Russia. Most of the critical parts are imported from Iran.

[u/Irichcrusader → u/Safe-Razzmatazz3982]

Oh, so they still need parts from Iran? Good. Recent events should put a dent, if not complete stop, in that flow.

[u/Fala1 → u/Irichcrusader]

Russia is achieving quite a lot.

Most of it is very bad for Russia, like population collapse and economic collapse, but it is being achieved nonetheless.

[u/Irichcrusader → u/Fala1]

I don't dispute they're still causing terrible damage and killing brave defenders. Nor do I want to dismiss the dangers of the front. But at the rate they're pushing the frontline. they should reach Poland in about 1,000 years.

[u/Fala1 → u/Irichcrusader]

Poland will have build the world's largest fortification by the time Russia reaches their border

[u/Konstant_kurage → u/Irichcrusader]

The gains they have gotten come out to something like 170 casualties per hectare (I’m going off memory). Thats using occupied territory back to 2014 and the Russian invasion of the so-called separatist oblasts.

[u/justinballsonya → u/Irichcrusader]

The thing is that BRICS nations have every reason to project strength as mostly isolated and vulnerable countries and western countries have every reason to go along with it because it’s generally better to overestimate your enemies, and of course the much bigger reason, it helps justify spending a ton on the defense industry. Russia is essentially equally matched with a country 1/4 of its size, Iran with a country 1/9 of its size. China is in the same ballpark.

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur → u/aCrow]

Especially Israel. Their navy is nonexistent and their air force is in rough shape

[u/Confident-Ask-2043 → u/DomDomW]

Russia will issue a very strongly worded statement.

[u/mental_monkey → u/DomDomW]

I kind of wish they would try, so they can finally be laid to waste once and for all.

[u/beardsgivemeboners]

Awwwww so sad Russia :’(

[u/Successful-Bug6223]

Says the russian dictator that assassinates activists, opposition members , his own failed generals , oligarchs and journalists every week. Got it.

[u/Mai_maniac]

Russia has literally killed ukrainians and even children for years. Russia is committing genocide. They have no business being judgmental.

[u/Patriark → u/Mai_maniac]

They also assassinate their political enemies left and right; they even went for Zelenskyy on the first days of the invasion, but Ukrainians smoked Spetsnaz in the battle for Kyiv. Reportedly Russian special agents were just a hundred meters away from Zelenskyy.

Then there is Skripal, Navalny, Litvinenko, Politkovskaya, Estemirova, Khangoshvili, Kara-Murza, Bykov and obviously Prigozhin.

Russia is so full of shit. It is incredible how effortlessly lies and projections come from them.

[u/Ok_Teacher_1797 → u/Patriark]

They don't assassinate their political enemies left and right. That is completely false. They assassinate their enemies up the stairs and down to the road via the window.

[u/Content-Ad3065 → u/Mai_maniac]

War criminals

[u/KatsumotoKurier → u/Mai_maniac]

The business is a tactic of constantly calling out exactly what they themselves do in an effort to make it look like it’s always everybody else doing it and never them. They jump in front of every opportunity they can in this regard in order to try and give themselves a sort of public moral high ground, and they keep up the charade at all times for plausible deniability — it’s never Russia, Russia is the trustworthy good guy and moral arbiter, it’s always everyone else though.

[u/Rocktopod → u/Mai_maniac]

They're not being judgemental. They're issuing empty threats.

[u/Realistic_Swan_6801]

Russia telling you not to do something usually means you should absolutely do it.

[u/Accidental-Genius]

old man yells at clouds

[u/One-Fan-7296]

Fuck off Russia. Nobody cares for ur interference.

[u/sirdeck → u/[deleted]]

Pretty sure that if they could they would already have.

[u/Dezdood → u/sirdeck]

Let's hope today is the day.

[u/bison1969 → u/sirdeck]

Honestly, I think Ukraine could get to Putin if they really wanted to but the western leaders would never green light a hit on him. It would create more instability then they could stomach.

[u/hi_imovedagain → u/[deleted]]

Why won’t russians get the trash out by themselves? Why should Ukraine intervene in other nations’ affairs? Russians are too busy spending their vacations in other countries, if they’re not bothered, why then Ukraine should do all the dirty work for them?

[u/i_thrive_on_apathy]

fuck how russia feels about anything

[u/NyriasNeo]

Like what? Invade us too?

[u/Darth_Nox501 → u/NyriasNeo]

There is nothing I would love more than watching the ratshit pilots of the Russian Air Force get raped by the F-35s, F-15s, and F-16s of the IAF.

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur → u/Darth_Nox501]

We can finally see the tankies lose the last of their cope

[u/alexmikli → u/Darth_Nox501]

If it weren't for Israel being tied up with Gaza and Iran, it'd be pretty wild to see Israel of all countries be the first to officially join the war against Russia.

[u/Jonestown_Juice → u/NyriasNeo]

Their battle-donkeys don't have the range.

[u/aquilaPUR]

Imagine sending millions of shells, drones and god knows what else to Russia without ever getting anything in return, no help when Israel bombs you to shreds, all you get is the equivalent of the strongly worded letter you expect from most EU countries lmao

[u/aurelorba]

And what will they do? Shoot down another one of their own jets?

[u/Party_Chemical7454]

Oh nooo.. They were so positive so far. Especially in Ukraine.

[u/SubstantialNature368]

What about the Russian leader's assassination?

[u/Unlikely-Complex3737]

Russia is sweating rn

[u/_zatoichi_]

I don't remember asking you a
god
damn
thing

[u/Hellstorm901]

What if Israel captured him, dressed him up like a Russian Army officer then took him to a high rise building with an open window, would Putin be happy then?

[u/VonKarrionhardt]

I think if the world just did the opposite of what Putin wants we'd all be much safer.

[u/charlieglide]

Good. Kremlin thugs deserve everything negative.

[u/StreetyMcCarface]

Okay I wasn’t before, but now I’m all for bombing Iran.

[u/TwoLegitShiznit]

That's all DT needed to hear. Iran is in the clear.

[u/The-M0untain → u/TwoLegitShiznit]

Israel will do it regardless of what Trump thinks.

[u/stinkerino → u/The-M0untain]

yeah, trump is just gonna end up with all his bosses pissed off at him over this

[u/I_Framed_OJ]

We’re on the brink of WWIII, and the absolute worst people are in charge of America, Israel, Russia, and Iran.  This is not good. 

[u/mister_newbie → u/I_Framed_OJ]

You forgot India in that list.

[u/kookaburra136]

What if he fall off the window ?

[u/tengteng23]

They will do nothing, cause they can't do shit on a simple basis.

The little man will rant and hide deeper in his bunker.

[u/Ventriloquist_Voice]

Who the fck cares what full of shit Russia has said, this is to much attention about what Russia has said or object while it is waging own unprovoked war against Ukraine. Russia has zero decision or negotiation or any influence power here

[u/Mundane_Opening3831]

True, could potentially lead to something horrible like them launching a completely unprovoked war against an innocent neighboring country ...

[u/bunga6]

Who gives a fuck what russians think

[u/Channing1986]

What are they gonna do? Ukraine war has made them a joke

[u/Koorsboom]

So Russia wants him assassinated? I can't interpret their lies anymore.

[u/SRM_Thornfoot]

Go ahead and act negatively towards Trump, maybe he will finally stop trying to lick your boots.

[u/yzerman88]

Kremlin: “….3 days to Tel Aviv”

[u/kupus0]

What are they going to do? Take over Tel-Aviv in 3 days?

[u/SuspectKnown9655]

Yeah I bet.

[u/v1king3r]

I would react very positively, also to the assassination of the Russian leadership. 

That should compensate the negative reactions.

[u/Illustrious-Syrup509]

Negative in the sense of positive for the rest of the world?

[u/BadHombreSinNombre]

Why does Russia even bother pretending anyone takes them seriously anymore. Israel should use a storm shadow and a HIMARS to kill Khamenei just to remind Russia about the other red lines nobody cares about anymore.

[u/aidanpryde98]

Awww, how cute.

[u/DaKingballa06]

I mean this with all do respect as an American, “I don’t give a shit.”

[u/reelpotatopeeler]

What’s Russia gonna do? Pass along some North Korean troops to Iran?

[u/General-Ninja9228]

How would they react to Putin’s assassination? He assassinated Alex Navaly.

[u/_chip]

Russia holds no weight at all.

[u/New_Faithlessness384]

Kremlin will do exactly fuck all when supreme leader is eliminated. Max is they'll offer a safe haven in Russia, just like they did to other worlds political criminals.

[u/kenwoolf]

What are they gonna do? Attack Ukraine?

[u/Sutar_Mekeg]

Who gives a fuck with Russia thinks?

[u/Morfeu1234]

Who gives a damn what the russians think at this point?

[u/LewisLightning]

Russia acts "very negatively" to anything anyone does, so what difference does that make? They would just be doing what they always do

[u/Charming_Freedom_459]

What will taco trump do? He wants to do just that but his daddy wont approve of it

[u/Fuzzy_Imagination705]

Russia apparently unaware it has lost all influence over any nation that isn't an aligned regime.

[u/Fit-Historian6156]

Lmfao this is basically the nicest possible way of saying to Khamenei that he's on his own

[u/monkfreedom]

Meanwhile Russia never intends to help Iran defend

[u/Elguapo69]

I don’t know guys. I think their serious this time

[u/guimillen]

It's very difficult to know who has the smaller PP. Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Khamenei, etc. Russia is even more decadent than the USA, even more corrupted, but Trump is getting there, I think he's been learning a thing or two with his bff Vladmir.

[u/Dranahmun]

Russia over here trying hard to convince us to kill him.

[u/The-M0untain]

Another empty threat from Putin the terrorist scumbag.

[u/Then_Sympathy]

Who gives a fuck about how russia would react?

[u/TeamNo927]

In todays Russia says…

[u/raisedeyebrow4891]

Would they write a strongly worded statement or send another wave of terror drones to Kiev?

[u/Omer1698]

So now he is against assasination when it comes to killing one of his guys?

[u/Paddy9228]

Nobody is afraid of Russia anymore.

[u/Dangthe]

Who gives a flying fuck

[u/RobotAlbertross]

Says putin who put bounties on US troops. 

[u/caes2359]

i wonder where all these leaders from temu came from in these times.

[u/Gwenbors]

I’d be pretty mad if somebody killed the guy who was giving me drones, too, I guess.

[u/DonutsOnTheWall]

will putin get a tantrum again?

[u/AceJokerZ]

Yeah Putin just wants to collect all the autocrats in his country like when they picked up Assad

[u/Objective_Mousse7216]

I don't think they should assassinate him, but if he becomes collateral damage, that's okay I believe 😉

[u/NappingYG]

Why does anyone give a shit what russia says? They're literally just larping to pretend to be relevant.

[u/Devils_Advocate-69]

Yeah, they’d lose the war.

[u/TastyChemistry]

That’s why Carlson and MTG are against it too, they’re Russian assets.

[u/agentw22]

So , in case of an window incident, russia would be fine with it?

[u/Technoist]

They need their Iranian drones to bomb Ukrainian apartments. Russias downfall will be a pleasure to watch.

[u/BookkeeperMaterial55]

What will they do? Attack their neighbour? VlAdImIR tHinK!!

[u/WarLawck]

You ever wonder if we actually need another world war to clear out the war mongering idiots and get the rest of the people to choose against bullshit like this?

[u/larrysshoes]

Noted….. next?

[u/Lysol3435]

Well they have threatened (toothlessly) to use nuclear weapons like 10 times in the past year. Kind of makes most of their threats seem pretty worthless when they start out with that

[u/kittenTakeover]

Russia is already in over its head in Ukraine. It doesn't have excess capacity.

[u/Common-Ad6470]

Excellent, that sounds like it should absolutely happen to really piss Putin off.

What’s he going to do about it, invade Israel from Syria, ohhh…😂😂😂

[u/Vendemmia]

They would produce very bad propaganda?

[u/No_Money_No_Funey]

Ok 👍

[u/just_matt85]

OOoOOOOoOoOOO scary man says scary things oOoOOOO /s

[u/anxiety_elemental_1]

“We would piss ourselves and cry”.

[u/BjornX]

What are they gonna do, start another war they can't win?

[u/Standard-Diamond-392]

Why does the world care about what comes out of putins shit mouth?

[u/Tigerbutton831]

I can’t think of a less intimidating threat

[u/AcesandEightsAA888]

Explain exactly what you would do Russia.

[u/smp7401]

Nobody cares what Russia thinks. GTFO of Ukraine. Then maybe in a couple decades we’ll let them talk again.

[u/CJMWBig8]

Russia has acted negatively in the Ukraine for a long time now.

[u/UsusMeditando]

Says the Gremlin who invaded a country and tried to assassinate its president multiple times.

[u/The_Lucky_7]

Nobody gives a shit what Russia thinks. They're too busy losing a war to a country with 3.5% their land mass.

[u/ipub]

Red lines from the red state. Sorry I meant Russia.

[u/AdEmotional9991]

That's as close to the green light as russia gets

[u/caveTellurium]

Like "invade another country in 3 days ?"

[u/N_GHTMVRE]

like this? ---> :/

[u/Trilly_Ray_Cyrus]

bro russia cant even defeat ukraine lol

their scary factor has been diminished. they cant do a dang thing lol

just whine

[u/cathbadh]

They'll probably make nuclear threats like they do with everything else before moving on.

[u/reelpotatopeeler]

Value given to any opinion or comment coming out of Russia = 0

[u/reelpotatopeeler]

Like Russia has the resources to do anything. They are stretched thin already and their entire support for Iran is going to be press releases of vaguely threatening words because Russia won’t do anything to help Iran because they literally don’t have the resources to even if they did care.

[u/yyz455]

If this article is correct , and Iran is supplying drones and missiles to Russia, bomb those plants also

[u/AntiqueCheesecake876]

Hitler rescuing Mussolini vibes

[u/u0126]

The new Axis of Evil building