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by billconan 1572 days ago
why not just award all possessions Putin has as the bounty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace

just pass a law, whoever overthrows a dictator has the right to own (or share) the dictator's belongings.
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llampx 1572 days ago
It makes me shake my head to see people think of the world as black and white. Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot. If he is American-supported, we will just stop hearing bad things about him. I've seen the pattern play out way too many times.

Not Putin supporter ofc.

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billconan 1572 days ago
my suggestion doesn't indicate the overthrower will have the right to become the new dictator.

the new government has to be formed follow a democratic procedure.

the goal is never replacing an old dictator with a new dictator.

my suggestion is about putting the criminal to court cost effectively.

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dragonwriter 1571 days ago
> my suggestion doesn't indicate the overthrower will have the right to become the new dictator.

Rights have little to do with what happens in practice.

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aaaaaaaaata 1572 days ago
> the new government has to be formed follow a democratic procedure.

What nations should be the model for such transitions?

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dzhiurgis 1572 days ago
> Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot.

Have you got examples of this? In Russian history it always was better.

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llampx 1571 days ago
Pinochet, for one. US-backed coup d'etat overthrowing a democratically-elected government. For more you can read the Wikipedia article United States involvement in regime change

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

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dzhiurgis 1571 days ago
Lets start with deaths of their own...

Lenin - 200k executions, 5 million deaths due to famines

Stalin - 800k executions, 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, plus some famine and some miscellaneous brings to around 5million, some estimates upwards 20 million.

Everything after that sounds like a breeze.

Now for the involvement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c...

Do I even need to bother looking how much communism had done around world?

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jiveturkey 1572 days ago
often referred to as, you keep what you kill
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