Trump’s self-imposed imprisonment
Why don’t international leader assassinate one another?
Trump’s self-imposed imprisonment
Why don’t international leaders assassinate one another?
There is an unwritten understanding among national leaders that they do not kill one another. This ‘understanding’ protects not only them, but their nations. If a leader is to be deposed or disposed of, it is their own citizens who must do it.
Removing the head of a nation leaves it leaderless and its opponents without a reference point from which to negotiate. Lacking an accepted representative, or imposed puppet leader, the top spot is contested and fought over internally. An established leader no matter how ruthless will always have an administration or civil service. This will continue to manage the needs of the nation through any transition. Food will arrive and lights will stay on. However, if a national leader is murdered by a foreigner, it is most often the case war will follow, the regime will become paranoid and oppressive and there will be no one left with whom to negotiate for peace.
Such was the case with the executions of Saddam Hussein and Muamar Ghadafi. Deposed leaders are often allowed to live and placed out of country where they can live out their lives in some form of home confinement. Idi Amin and Bashar Assad would fit this category. This might sound unfair, but time and experience has proved that crushing the cockroach can lead to a hundred little replacements.
Keeping leaders alive, eases the desire for revenge and repercussions. The world moves on in some relative form of security. Experience has shown a deposed living enemy is preferable to a dead one.
Donald Trump executed the supreme leader of Iran…
