They do it all the time but its called shaping its very slow moving and if done right nobody will know you have done it. Its spelled out in the field manual fm 3-24
I’d argue they didn’t, they just changed.
There are 2 groups worth noting. Government and private.
Government assassination is still a thing. Israel has used it aggressively over the last few decades. There are also signs that china has too. That’s just off the top of my head. It’s also worth noting that drone strikes etc can fill the same roll as an assassin.
Private has definitely changed. I suspect the high profile assassinations have stopped. Low level ones just had to get a lot better at not looking like assassinations. The ever classic boating accident being a good example.
The change is mostly from improvements in policing. You can no longer just move to another city to escape the law.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of society has changed. It used to be that a country pivoted on its leader. Now, it’s a lot more reliant on formal structures. Taking out a leader doesn’t have the same, devastating effect it used to. Iran being a good example.
Because killing a leader without a plan for who will replace them isn’t very efficient. A leader, unless he is particularly skilled, is rarely string enough to actually have that big of an influence but it’s enabled by the institutions. The only way to change the institutions is weakening the ones you want to weaken.
You could aim higher than politicians but few are so bold in history.
How come assassinations went away for the most part?
Ali Khamenei might have a different view.
“For the most part” does not mean “entirely”.
I’m not taking a side here: maybe you’re right, maybe OP’s right. But I won’t stand for such cheap arguments!
Edit: just saw OP made a similarly terrible argument in another comment chain. Welp.
Some of your body parts seem smart…
;-)
And Jamal Khashoggi
Izz al-Din al-Haddad also disagrees.
Imagine you’re the leader of a country. You’ve got beef with the leader of another country.
You can resolve your beef by sending thousands or tens of thousands of plebs to die, while remaining safe yourself, or you can normalize directly targeting each other with assassins.
In the first case, you sit safely on your throne sipping wine while the conflict resolves itself. In the latter case, you’re constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering who’s going to come for you next.
Yea I would put myself up before I let blood or any blood be split on my behalf
That’s how WW1 started.
Because the CIA is like a clown car of stupid, and bungled Castro’s so bad it just made us all look stupid.
Then by an amazing coincidence, JFK got shot in the head a couple of years after the attempts.
Also Executive Order 12333 signed by Regan after someone shot him.
Plus Trump just did kill the ayatollah, it changed nothing.
In the end, all you do is make them a martyr and propel us faster into war.
In the end, all you do is make them a martyr and propel us faster into war.
I think the lesson they learned from the martyrs they created in the 60s (King, the Kennedys) is that it’s much easier and just as effective to assassinate character. And it’s mostly legal.
Yup.
Fox News brainwashing and lies are way more effective than a bullet, and really really profitable.
Well, profitable up till that whole voting machine thing.
When were assassinations the norm?
Pretty much Europe back in the day
No
So your telling me that no one in all of the history of Europe no one was never assassinated or outright killed?
It’s the norm
It’s not the norm
Why are you saying it’s never?
Your comment doesn’t make logical sense
Did you actually read my comment or just nitpicking? Or you get off for others mistakes that make no difference to the world at large but upset your little fragile heart?
Fresh off the Reddit boat?
Did you actually read my comment […]?
Yes, which is how I know that your logic didn’t make sense.
Your faulty logic didn’t upset me nearly as much as it upset you. You interpreted someone saying “it’s not common” as telling you that it never happened, and seemed to feel entitled to an explanation.
Seriously though, I don’t know why you think I’d be upset, lol
I try to be a people pleaser
Well there was that one guy mentioned elsewhere in this tread.
The one that started WW1.
