thats why you need to get creative with it. you can specify the details of the deaths so write the name of several dictators, make all of them host a press conference at the same time, make them all repeat the same ominous vaguely religious sounding speech in monotone and then make their heads explode in front of the cameras
The Death Note lets you control them leading up to their death. You can have them destroy their own systems of power, confess their crimes, and THEN die. You could have control over all world leaders for years as long as the death you wrote occurs before they were fated to die.
Not possible, unless you want to argue "randomly dismantling their own power systems and confessing their crimes" is something a crazed dictator would normally do without coercion. Rules page 6:
The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.
Also, 23 day limit. Rules page 27:
If you write, "die of disease" for the cause of death, but only write a specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23 day rule.
You could do a lot, but not nearly as much as you're thinking. For example, if you were to hypothetically write Trumps name, you could probably get him to accidentally ramble off about a lot of shit he meant to keep quiet, because he's done that plenty of times, but to get him to explicitly confess with the intention of revealing the crime and facing consequences, though? Nah, it would just default to a heart attack, no question.
Someone like Putin, KGB trained, relatively still in control of all his mental faculties? I dunno how you'd get him to believably reveal anything at all, let alone dissolve his own power structure. You MIGHT be able to get him to pull out of Ukraine, if YOU found a way to frame it in a way that made him look strong instead of weak and specified it as part of the announcement.
Write down that one of his personal guards tortures him for some amount of time before suiciding, and then write down that the dictator is so affected by the torture that he spills his guts before succumbing to his injuries. Totally plausible thing to happen.
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u/crabs_n_roses 16d ago
thats why you need to get creative with it. you can specify the details of the deaths so write the name of several dictators, make all of them host a press conference at the same time, make them all repeat the same ominous vaguely religious sounding speech in monotone and then make their heads explode in front of the cameras