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If the Russian war machine really believed in Great Man Theory like that they would have turned zelenski into paste years ago.
This is something libs really struggle to comprehend. I'm reminded of Putin giving assurance to Turkey (or some other intermediary) that they wouldn't kill zelensky. The next day, he was out in the street putting on his show.
I'm also reminded of at least 1 picture I've seen of Zelensky's motorcade from the POV of a Russian recon drone.
At any point in the past 2 years they could've assassinated him, or any of the western politicians that visit kiev, but they haven't.
This was my immediate thought as well, but I know if I tried to explain this to libs the next thing out of their mouth would be something along the lines of "its about the message/morale! yeah it wouldn't really affect the manufacturing, but it might scare the next guy, etc"
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This is something libs really struggle to comprehend. I'm reminded of Putin giving assurance to Turkey (or some other intermediary) that they wouldn't kill zelensky. The next day, he was out in the street putting on his show.
I'm also reminded of at least 1 picture I've seen of Zelensky's motorcade from the POV of a Russian recon drone.
At any point in the past 2 years they could've assassinated him, or any of the western politicians that visit kiev, but they haven't.
This was my immediate thought as well, but I know if I tried to explain this to libs the next thing out of their mouth would be something along the lines of "its about the message/morale! yeah it wouldn't really affect the manufacturing, but it might scare the next guy, etc"
No, if you explained this to them, they'd call you a brainwashed Putin bot that is inventing tankie conspiracy theories.