Allegedly Ryan Routh. He claimed to have voted for Trump in 2016, now opposed to Trump. A fanatic supporter of Ukraine. Strikes me as a classic American kook assassin. Be cautious, as there is a lot of erroneous information about this gentleman being manufactured online. More to come.
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Every other country has this group or that behind assassins. All US assassin are lone, kooky people with the last 2 appearing in Blackrock ads.
What are chances that all our assassins are not backed by some group? Js
He strikes me as a kook, but a significantly different sort of kook than Giuseppe Zangara, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremmer, John Hinckley, or Jared Loughner. Oswald excepted, all these chaps were childless bachelors and Zangara excepted, all of them were bereft of trade skills. (Louth appears to have owned his own business at one point, something it’s impossible to imagine these others doing).
IOW, a Cheneyian.
Three things:
1. First Kim the Cheat, then Tommy Crooks, and now Ryan Ruthless. Has the Marvel Universe decided to open a news division?
2. Why do people, media and otherwise, insist on calling him “gentleman”? The most polite descriptor I would use is “alleged assassin”.
3. No doubt in my mind that Trump’s refusal to accede to the ABCDisney moderators’ demand that he state a desire for Ukraine to “win” spurred Ruthless to action.
He strikes me as a kook, but a significantly different sort of kook than Giuseppe Zangara, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, (et al)
This guy published “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” a book (edited by his wife) recounting his, ahem, exploits in Ukraine, comparing himself to George Orwell going off to fight the fascists (Franco) in Spain in 1936, and complaining that the Ukrainians didn’t show enough appreciation for his “sacrifices”.
Of the historical assassins you list, Oswald probably comes the closest, given that he lived in the USSR, married a Russian woman, and upon his return to the States took up the “fair play for Cuba” cause. If online self-publishing had existed in the early 1960s perhaps Oswald would have written a book titled “Cuba’s Unwinnable War”.