[brandonmenc]

Yes, it is difficult to take out the leader of a world nuclear world power.

Especially one as shrewd as Putin. Especially when you're expecting the EU to do it. Not sure why this is a surprise.

The world is not an action film.

[rngfnby]

This.

Never mind that they tried a month ago with the drone attacks.

How would this work exactly? The most protected person in the world, thousands of km from hostile borders, in the city with the world best AD surrounded, by bureaucrats who, if anything, think Putin is too soft on the West.

[artem2471]

That one attack where Russians released an ai generated video to prove its existence.

[SanjayMehta]

And what happened? They poked the bear and it turned their electricity grid off. Something NATO would have done in the first 4 hours, not take 4 years.

[rngfnby]

Right.

Ppl behave as if Russia isn't sitting on the world's conventional weapons cache, and largest weapons production capability.

Or that Ukraine wasn't sitting on the second largest cache of conventional weapons, particularly Soviet era AD.