A movie came out a few years back, The Death of Stalin, which was pretty funny. The centerpiece of it was Joseph Stalin lying on the floor after suffering a stroke, and all the other commies scrambling about and trying to come out on top. They were glad to see him go, and they didn't summon any help for Josef, but none of them were brave enough to deliver the coup de gras.
I believe that is a pretty close description of what actually happened. If there was a mechanism to remove the head of state nobody was brave enough to use it. Hell it happened right here in the USA where we twice tried to use the constitutional mechanism to remove a law breaking tyrant, and failed because half the reps were in love with the guy and the other half were scared shitless. Even to this day with book after book comes out about what a dickhead he is, you'll find very few reps willing to say a bad word about him and he is the overwhelming favorite to be their nominee the next time around.
I keep harping on the guy I know, but I don't think it has been set enough. HE HELD UP MILITARY AID FOR UKRAINE TO GET THEM TO SMEAR HUNTER BIDEN, AND ONLY WHEN THE WHISTLE WAS BLOWN DID HE DO WHAT HE WAS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO DO AND THEN HE FIRED THE WHISTLEBLOWER. I was going to go on with increasingly larger caps, but it suddenly occurred to me, how would I feel if the Russkies put a cap in Orangey's head?
I can't say that I would feel bad about that at all. But it would set a bad precedent, with heads of state knocking off other heads. Probably not that easy to do either, witness the comedy of errors when we tired to knock off Castro and he lived in a small island not that far away from us at all.
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