How many heads of state have, for example, strapped on explosives and, while shouting alaakbar, charged into a crowd while detonating themselves? Find me one. One will do.
Why would they do that when they can convince others to do it instead?
Exactly. When it's a nuke, and not a strapped-on bomb, it might as well be the rulers as some chump doing it, because the result for them will be the same.
Disavow, disavow, disavow. It's now up to the attacked to justify their response. The international community will not simply allow one nation to nuke another off the globe just because a separatist group that received donations from that Nation, decided to blow up a city.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
