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The idea that the of at war should be off-limits is a relic of the days when and noble expected to be treated respectfully by their counterparts on the other side while they all cheerfully trampled into the mud. Let it and them die.

@medigoth

👉 Knights in armour didn't fight each other, 👈
Knights in armour slaughtered peasants wirh sticks for weapons.

If a knight lost a battle he was sold back.

@medigoth
It is long past.
If Churchill had been killed, any of several elected officials would have stepped up.
If Hitler had been killed (I knew a chap who tried to drop him a birthday present) then that government would less clearly continue.

Putin's status is more personal than Zelensky's.
The latter has risen to the occasion, marvellously.
The former lacks a convenient way to step back, down, away.
His absence would encourage resolution.

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