signalmankenneth
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This was a good move on the part of ICC to issue an arrest warrant on Putin?!! I predict Putin will be killed or overthrown this year, if Putin is overthrown without killing him, Russia can hand him over to the Hague, where he will spend the rest of his life behind bars?!!
It's just a matter of time before the Russian military/people get's tired of the staggering losses in Ukraine and crippling sanctions too?!!
CNN —
President Vladimir Putin always relished his global outings, burnishing his image as one of the big guns running the world.
While the Kremlin is dissing the International Criminal Court’s war crimes charges against him, inside the Kremlin walls another reality will be emerging. Putin’s world just got smaller.
At the Hamburg G20 in 2017 he spent hours talking alone with arguably the most powerful man in the world at that moment, former President Donald Trump.
A year later at the next G20 leader’s summit in Buenos Aires Putin high fived Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman less than two months after suspicion fell on the Saudi over the brutal murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Basking in international focus he could thumb his nose at the world, or manipulate its leaders, in person, a perk if you will of his stubborn, decades-long grip on power.
His love and use of the global limelight helped him at home too, bolstering his tough guy, bare chested, bear hunting image as protector of Russians, holding back supposed malign machinations of NATO marauding the country’s borders.
But all of that is over. Both Germany and Argentina are signatories to the Rome Statute, two of 123 nations who are obliged if Putin pitches up on their doorstep again to extradite him to the Hague to face trial as a war criminal.
Putin faces a dilemma now, if he shows up in Delhi for this year’s G20 in September. India, like the USA, is not signed up to the ICC, but what will Prime Minister Narendra Modi do?
Shortly after the ICC announcement, President Joe Biden, when asked by a reporter, “should Putin be tried for war crimes,” he replied “he’s clearly committed war crimes,” indicating Putin unsurprisingly would not be welcome in the US.
It leaves ambiguous the type of legal snare Putin could inadvertently find himself in the future. Without careful planning Putin could touch down in a country apparently unaligned with the ICC and not beholden to the international law requirements he be handed over to the Hague, yet for unseen international political pressure, or their own new found desire for international justice triggering a legal process to get him to the Hague.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/europe/putin-icc-arrest-warrant-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html
It's just a matter of time before the Russian military/people get's tired of the staggering losses in Ukraine and crippling sanctions too?!!
CNN —
President Vladimir Putin always relished his global outings, burnishing his image as one of the big guns running the world.
While the Kremlin is dissing the International Criminal Court’s war crimes charges against him, inside the Kremlin walls another reality will be emerging. Putin’s world just got smaller.
At the Hamburg G20 in 2017 he spent hours talking alone with arguably the most powerful man in the world at that moment, former President Donald Trump.
A year later at the next G20 leader’s summit in Buenos Aires Putin high fived Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman less than two months after suspicion fell on the Saudi over the brutal murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Basking in international focus he could thumb his nose at the world, or manipulate its leaders, in person, a perk if you will of his stubborn, decades-long grip on power.
His love and use of the global limelight helped him at home too, bolstering his tough guy, bare chested, bear hunting image as protector of Russians, holding back supposed malign machinations of NATO marauding the country’s borders.
But all of that is over. Both Germany and Argentina are signatories to the Rome Statute, two of 123 nations who are obliged if Putin pitches up on their doorstep again to extradite him to the Hague to face trial as a war criminal.
Putin faces a dilemma now, if he shows up in Delhi for this year’s G20 in September. India, like the USA, is not signed up to the ICC, but what will Prime Minister Narendra Modi do?
Shortly after the ICC announcement, President Joe Biden, when asked by a reporter, “should Putin be tried for war crimes,” he replied “he’s clearly committed war crimes,” indicating Putin unsurprisingly would not be welcome in the US.
It leaves ambiguous the type of legal snare Putin could inadvertently find himself in the future. Without careful planning Putin could touch down in a country apparently unaligned with the ICC and not beholden to the international law requirements he be handed over to the Hague, yet for unseen international political pressure, or their own new found desire for international justice triggering a legal process to get him to the Hague.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/europe/putin-icc-arrest-warrant-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html