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Russian entrepreneur puts a $1M bounty on Putin's head

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Seems slightly suicidal. And $1M doesn't seem all that much for the potential risk to yourself and your family.

Wait until other contributors join the game and add more targets.

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.

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.

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.

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

What nations should be the model for such transitions?

> 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.

> Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot.

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

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...

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?

often referred to as, you keep what you kill

Even if he dislikes Putin, this may be a virtue signal to avoid being the target of the recent growing anti-Russian sentiment in western countries. Some muslims did similar things to avoid the racism after 9/11 and during the Iraq war.

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