The Forgotten History of Hitler's Establishment Enablers

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8. But the other side uses assassination all the time.

Given that putin is funding and leading the republicans and working with anti-democracy American and foreign countries; and given that putin sends out hit squads to defenestrate, poison, bludgeon, shoot his opponents.

Of course the US does not have a very pristine record in this department. We've "offed" a whole lot of people that we - at that time - did not like.

My question may be: Is assassination of a leader to achieve a goal better or worse than subjecting a huge portion of a population to death?