I would tend to agree here, if you’re dealing with redundant political infrastructure in a well-trained military, assassinations don’t do that much. They’ve mostly taken out people who are in diplomatic, public positions and can’t just be kept in the war room all the time. It’s like how they got Nasrallah with an IRGC team because they were meeting to negotiate, same when Soleimani was assassinated for being the figurehead of the end of ISIS in Iraq.

Ditto taking out Zelensky who is redundant political infrastructure as his job is to do what the US wants and facilitate corruption. The Prigozhin fans demanding he be taken out should ask for NATO officers in the country for training and oversight to be eliminated more.

The US will not be able to assassinate enough military officers to do shit. They’re using limited stocks of missiles, some like the particularly evasive low-yield airburst atmosphere-skimming Golden Horizon are so limited they are unlikely to outlast even the beginning of this conflict, to take out replacable guys no, offense to them. It seems to me that Iran was afraid of the enormous economic cost, and confident in its military. So they are pacing to hold on to leverage after they survive this, knowing that is the key to rebuilding as the region’s dominant economic and military power.

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