Political Assassinations
This cluster revolves around discussions of political assassinations, including historical CIA attempts on leaders like Castro, speculations on government involvement in recent deaths, and debates over media coverage and implications.
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While I don't really agree with political assassinations, and you are likely to get flagged for this, it's not like the US government hasn't done similar stuff to leaders that we thought were harmful.The CIA tried to kill Castro a bunch of times [1], presumably because they felt that him being in power was harmful and killing him was a net good. It's not like this kind of stuff is unprecedented.[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassina
Being assassinated has that effect.
how is this on HN but the assassination attempt wasnt? at least not until much later
Why are we talking about assassination?
Just a lil government assassination
I imagine an assassination would've been cheaper.
Wondering why the article does not mention this being assassinations and terrorism.
This was an assassination, yet not a single article about this contain that word.
all powerful people are potential targets of assassination. if someone said “shinzo abe was assasinated”, would you respond “theres no way that could happen because no one could have confirmed that unless an intel insider was talking about it, and then that insider would lose their access really quick!!” i mean my god
The assassination or the sharing of information about who perpetrated the assassination?