Anyway, we should start at the top and work downwards. It's a waste of ammo to kill all the involuntary cannon fodder. If the top goes, Russia would have to reconstruct, however that might turn out.

Except Putin's behavior isn't sane even by oligarch standards. Another corrupt leader would just take Putin's place, but they might not be inclined to continue with Ukraine. They could just blame it all on Putin and quietly retreat the military. It's not the best outcome, but at least Ukraine would be safe.

It's not just Putin, and it's not all of Russia. The Kremlin+oligarchs are the problem.

But not the same shitty, abd since they're not Putin, they can disown this whole shit show and shut it down without looking weak.

Like many things political, you start doing outside political killings from another country, pretty soon you can find yourself dead as a political leader. It's playground tit-for-tat rules.

Plus, unless you are prepared for a "You break it, you buy it" situation, can and always will get something worse. See: the Middle East at this moment in time.

That's why none of them will do it.

There isn't a replacement in place for Putin that would be any different. Everyone that thinks and acts different is kept away from power in Russia. Pushed out of windows, deaths in prison or the aircraft falls out of the sky. There is a possibility that he is replaced by someone worse.

It's much better if he is removed from power by Russians. The next leader has to be different and havs the support of the people. Intelligence services taking him out won't achieve this. Your likely to get an extremists that tries to escalate the war in Ukraine.

The CIA attempted to assassinate castro between 8 and 634 times

Because then Russia will try to assasinate US leaders

Yea they even got OBL murdered when they wanted. It seems that they just don't want Putin gone for now, profits or "escalation" as a reason.

Nah. These are all state actors. They don't want to break the taboo on assassinating world leaders when they do atrocities, because they may want to do atrocities later.

So millions of poor fuckers die in the mud.

Africa was carved up with the intent to be exploitable, with minority regimes that needed colonial support in power and intentional ethnic and resource conflicts aplenty.

Don't be a dick about it, carve it up based on extant cultural regions with balancedish resources, and it could work. At least closer to 'works' than having a 'Russia' is right now.

You can't convince me Russia's nuclear arsenal works for shit, much less the missiles.

And even if one or two get through; still a net gain on human life over another year or ten of meat grinder warfare.

And if you put a bounty on Russian warheads....

Or just carve up Russia so no part us big enough to pull this shit again, and people there are less under the thumb of a handful of shit heads in Moscow/st Petersburg.

The thing about Russia is, they've always got more sausage they can make

Threatening the lives of EU citizens and commerce in an effort to force the European nations to withdraw support from Ukraine.

Maybe they were just testing reaction time

As shitty as Putin is, I don’t think he has a death wish.

How certain are you?

What if putin was going to die soon from something?

Nuclear blast, where I focused on the heat and excluded the long, painful radiation deaths that would also occur.

Edit: radio - > radiation

You volunteering to be cannon fodder?

I'm talking from my perspective

Might have to break out the ole INS

IRSs drifts like crazy. If anything irs is the backup to GNSS currently.

Ah, the good old Desantis boot trick!

I mean, doesn’t matter. We pinpoint russia and then what. Sure, we can retaliate and block their comma, and radio communication doesn’t work for both of us. We can always invade, but a load of political capital is needed, and the west doesn’t exactly have the most ammo ever right now.

Finally, I think the true source is this

"Our system is unjammable! Just make sure this laser receiver has clear line of sight with three satellites way up in geosynchronous orbit at all times."

"You're fucking with me, right?"

In a war like this they jam everything and anything they can. No commercial solutions would be loopholed out of it.

Ok, then they just block that one

Russia could just as easily jam two signals at once.

It doesn't matter if you encrypt it, it still has to make information out of communication with satellites. Jamming saturates the band range that something is attempting to communicate across. So no sensible information is available because it's all noise

Not the point of the post I replied to or my post. I develop GPS satellites for the Space Force. I understand jamming quite well and know what capabilities Russia has.

The person didn't say that this hypothetical private system couldn't be jammed. They said that if GPS is jammed then it opens up a niche for a private company to sell their own service. I said that exact thing is happening. That isn't to say that service couldn't also get jammed, but Russia is mainly jamming GPS because it affects military missions. Since the military wouldn't be using this private company, then Russia is unlikely to jam their signal.

Also arguably an accident.

Let's be real, they probably aren't jamming themselves?

Who am I fucking kidding, they probably are with how the war has been going.

They never said "recent". The cold war ended in 1989, and GPS became fully operational in 1993. Not sure what your point is...

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