https://youtu.be/4Pp-hADwAG8?feature=shared
Russia planned to assassinate the chief executive of Rheinmetall, and the US and Germany had foiled their plot, media reports say. The German arms-maker has ...
As we all know, manufacturing rests on the shoulders of a single person. If they die, employees lose their knowledge and stand idly until a new CEO is appointed. Putin learned this in Materialism 101 for KGB freshmen.
Exactly. CEOs work 1000x as hard as the average guy on the floor, it's reflected in their salaries. So it makes sense to take out that guy first.
Russian intelligence aren't dumb enough to think that killing a CEO is going to deter shareholders from demanding more profits. If the Russian war machine really believed in Great Man Theory like that they would have turned zelenski into paste years ago.
I feel like it would be more believable that ukraine would have tried to kill him for not giving them enough weapons. Even more likely is that the USA invented the assassination attempt to scare the CEO into giving them a better deal. "We saved your life from putler now you have to give us a deal on those munitions and not talk back when we tell you to build more"
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"
No, if you explained this to them, they'd call you a brainwashed Putin bot that is inventing tankie conspiracy theories.
Absolute bottom of the barrel most desperate attempt to make Biden's NATO saga relevant lol. You could stop evil Putler's assassins but not the 5 random Ukrainians on a fishing boat from blowing up Nord stream.
They cleverly thwarted Putin's nefarious scheme by being so bad at producing materiel that assassination was unnecessary or even counterproductive
There's an old bad war joke where a new guy shows up at a base and finds out a sniper is shooting at the base a couple of times a day. He asks the old guys why they don't kill the sniper and they say something like "well, we had a sniper who would kill someone ever few days, and we blasted him. They sent a sniper that killed someone every few days, so we blasted him. This went on until they sent a sniper who can't shoot for shit, so we let him be" .
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