Isn’t this just standard practice for nuclear-armed states? Seems like abc is doing a little fearmongering

Angel of mercy, people are suffering All over the world A spanish boy could be killed every night of The week

[Verse 3] But just let some white boy die And the world goes crazy for blood - latin blood

From Adios Hermanos by Paul Simon

I think assassination as a political tool is a few millennia too old to be just a putin thing.