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woooooo01/03/20263 repliesview on HN

Well, as always, who decides the leader is illegitimate? Are the Saudis illegitimate, according the the rubric we put on Maduro?

The UN deliberately has no mechanism for this because it's a talking shop intended to help avoid war by providing a talking venue. That's the whole idea, they're not the world police, there is no such thing. They're a forum.

I'm absolutely not defending any given dictator but history shows that every attempt to remove a dictator "for the greater good" is usually 1) selfishly motivated and 2) backfires horribly.


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jakeydus01/03/2026

Yeah, ask any Chilean how the installation of Pinochet worked out.

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ModernMech01/03/2026

Also 3) not ever about the the greater good, that’s a pretext

nkmnz01/03/2026

How exactly did the removal of Hitler backfire?

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