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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It probably goes without saying at this point, but deporting someone to a culture in which they're not competent is wildly immoral, and doing so in such a way that they end up encarcerated in subhuman conditions especially despite not committing a crime in that jurisdiction is monstrous.

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If he doesn't die of old age in his second term, he will die in prison after. Along with a good part of his cronies.

I hope you're right, but he would be the first to do so in a very long time.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you ignore the morality, it is also supremely stupid. Killing your citizens and stealing their stuff might be a "shot in the arm" for a terrible nation, but it also means all of the skills and support they could offer the nation is gone.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, but that's a future people problem. We've got only a few years left. Our immediate family is set for life, if not multiple generations. What more could we want? [Speaking from the imagined perspective of oligarchs]