I expect the strategy to cause the effects of anti-American propaganda to skyrocket. Suppose that Russia decided to murder Zelenskiy. How likely would this action to cause the West to increase support of Ukraine and some countries of the Global South to disapprove Russian actions? And if we replace the counterfactual with the actual events of Israel vs Iran?
As for the drug cartels, however, attempting to support such a cartel would lead not just to a state adopting a mistaken policy, but also to having the cartel and the supporter participate in drug-related evils.
I expect the strategy to cause the effects of anti-American propaganda to skyrocket. Suppose that Russia decided to murder Zelenskiy. How likely would this action to cause the West to increase support of Ukraine and some countries of the Global South to disapprove Russian actions? And if we replace the counterfactual with the actual events of Israel vs Iran?
As for the drug cartels, however, attempting to support such a cartel would lead not just to a state adopting a mistaken policy, but also to having the cartel and the supporter participate in drug-related evils.
There are credible reasons to believe that they have attempted to do so more than once. Did you mean if they succeeded?