You mean what would happen if for example an Austrian archduke where to be assassinated by a Serb activist whilst visiting Bosnia?
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Those are all minor countries, I'm sure it would be fine.
As long as it doesn't come out afterwards that the Crown Prince of Serbia was running the conspiracy with half of his military officers
Is that true? I'm woefully undereducated when it comes to the events leading up to WW1
We need to start deeper than that. Even if the Arch Duke had not been assassinated WWI would have happened anyway.
Yeah. The actual assassination was performed by members of Young Bosnia, which was a nationalist group that incorporated some anarchist ideas that obviously got them labeled as pure anarchists despite wanting to, you know, create a new state named... Drumroll... Yugoslavia.
The Young Bosnians were funded, helped, and organized by a group called The Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group composed of various military officers and the crown prince, out to create a Balkan empire dominated by Serbia. Their preferred name for that, btw, is back in style under the Greater Serbia moniker.
The funny thing about the assassination is that it accomplished all the aims of the assassins, namely the destruction of the AHE and creation of a Yugoslavia controlled by the Serbian royal family.
The Black Hand
I vaguely remember this now. Badass name. Thanks for the info.
oh no! here goes Poland
All of the above. Every single group will twist it to suit their needs, but those who control the narrative will ultimately win out
Read up on Franz Ferdinand if you want to know how it goes.
Spoiler: a band names themselves after you a hundred years later
Spoiler: People die in the aftermath
People, and an absolute shit ton of horses
"Nooo you can't just assassinate a politician to trigger a world war that'll leave many people dead"
"Haha, KDR goes brrrr"
💀
(Too dark? sorry but dark humor is my jam)
"American Assassinated Putin" or "Russian Dissident Assassinated Putin"
I think both of these headlines would be printed. Russia would blame US, and US would blame them.
Thoughts and prayers
It would be a gift to whatever country was hosting the shooter. They could disown them completely. Russia in this case would blame the hosting country for not being good enough security wise and there would be a flaming hot discussion. Possibly some level of conflict and then it would die down.
Nah I think if an American killed Putin (ex-Russian or not), all hell would probably break loose
That also is definitely a possibility.
Four, "High Ranking" Democrat senators might agree to send an email.
"Asking for a friend"
Um... its for a novel... 👀
(Trust me bro 😉)
Is your pen name SWIM?
(Someone Who Isn't Me, for those not familiar with that one)
“Well, in that case, let me divulge all of our contingency plans, the exact layout and protocols for accessing camp David and everything else you need. For realism. Just don’t make us look like morons, Kay?”- secret service, maybe
Is it called "The Instruction Manual how to Start a World War", by any chance?
Why would they extradite that person? The murder took place in country A and the leader of country B got killed. That's a problem for the courts in country A.
Some countries have a legal proviso that can activate their court system for crimes that didn't happen within their jurisdiction. Some Syrian torturers that ended up fleeing Syria too found themselves in courtrooms in the EU. So if the perpetrator was able to kill leader of B in A but then fled the country, if B somehow got ahold of them, they could prosecute their leader's murder on their own turf. That's assuming they wouldn't just send a hit squad.
All the headlines would just say things along the lines of "B-born naturalized citizen of A killed B leader." I think it's similar to all the al qaeda or IS terrorists who often held passports of the countries they terrorized.
The relations between these countries would obviously be strained. But how strained would depend on more factors. Where did security break down, who fucked up, and how did everyone react to this assassination? If B was indeed Russia and the shooter was Russian-born, you can bet they will come up with a media narrative how the culprit was long sought for gulag internment for their wild ideas but managed to flee from the glorious motherland. And then duped the hapless people of A to give them citizenship, the stupid, naive fools! If only they had listened to us, who are always right, before! Then this tragedy could have been averted.
Putin is a war criminal with an arrest warrant by the ICC. He ain't visiting nowhere, apart from shithole countries that aren't part of ICC.
Like the recent USA trip to Alaska? Or is that your point?
As the US arent part of the ICC, I assume, yes.
Yes, but there were more than one qualifier. Not being signed up to the ICC doesn't automatically make you an shit hole country but many/most countries that aren't are shit hole countries.
The current USA are the definition of a shit hole...
Such as the US? Like the OP used the example?
Yes
Case by case basis.
So much would depend on the countries involved, and their current relationships.
Let's say it's a former Russian citizen who kills Putin in the USA. The new Russian leader might want to have the killer tried in Russia, or they might want to throw the whole thing to the Americans. Legally, if the murder takes place in the USA, it's the duty of the individual state to deal with it. But if the US President declares it an act of international terrorism, they could push through sending him home.
That's not even getting into how the murder was done. Putin would have his own security team, plus Secret Service protection, so how did the killer get past them? Was there a conspiracy?
There's no single answer possible.