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I think you’re making up a world in your head. Who are these “lots” of “good” Russians who are abroad and whose lives are in realistically danger of state assassination? Not that it has never happened, but you’re blowing things out of proportion. Probably Russia does it at a scale roughly similar to the US.

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I think you’re making up a world in your head.

My friend, they poisoned people in the UK with a fucking nerve agent. They are so brazen and open about people being killed for not doing that the Kremlin tells them.

They have purposely made a meme out of the “suspiciously fell from window” thing, because they want people to know exactly what happens and why.

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Nerve agents compared to drone strikes look humane and civilized.

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Disagree. Chemical warfare is an entirely different beast.

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they poisoned people in the UK with a fucking nerve agent.

Yes, they did. How often is that happening? Proportion.

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We’re not talking about taking out former spies in foreign, sovereign nations you dolt. I used that as an example to show just how brazen and open they are about this stuff. Using such a dangerous method, on foreign soil, is basically unheard of.

If you actually want to talk about frequency, we should be looking at the defenestration cases…

This shit is happening so frequently that there are several wiki pages dedicated to listing them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_Russians_in_2022

Scroll down to “see also” for a long list of related articles about the Russian government assassinating citizens and low-level bureaucrats.

Assuming you actually give a shit

EDIT: apparently Lemmy markdown doesn’t like the link. For anyone who can’t figure out why it’s not working, or for some weird reason thinks I would make up a wiki page with a title that specific:

Suspicious deaths of notable Russians in 2022–2024

And, again, after checking out the main article, take a look at the “see also” section.

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Very nice link that not only does not have a list of names but also fairly explicitly explains that it is not talking about Americans killing Americans.

I am not going to spend more than 30 seconds on it but here is the first list of “lots” of Russians that are believed to have been assassinated by their own government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_Russians_in_2022–2024

Despite your personal attacks, the trivially discoverable facts are not on your side.

I used Wikipedia since you apparently find it credible.

My favourite “suicide” of a notable Russian in the last couple of years was the one that had a suicide note signed by “illegible signature” ( what it actually said ). I guess the FSB did not totally understand the instructions.

Indeed A LOT of falling out of windows. Quite a bit of poisoning as well. These are the successful ones. How about that time they poisoned the entire Ukrainian peace team including the owner of the Chelsea Football Club?

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