Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year.
Lula, speaking to the Firstpost news show at the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Delhi on Saturday, said Putin would be invited to next year’s event.
He added that he himself planned to attend a BRICS bloc of developing nations meeting due in Russia before the Rio meeting.
“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” Lula said. “What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”
The statement comes after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
I think leaving Russia would be dangerous for Putin.
Especially with how iffy planes leaving Russia have been lately…
Accidents happen all the time.
Have you seen the sky lately, it’s raining cats, dogs, and AA missiles out there
Now the cocomelon song is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Thanks.
:p
Do it 😈
doooooooo ittttttttt
“I lied” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 2024.
Would actually be a chad move
and completely impossible from what actions we’ve seen that rusophile lulu already take
How is he a “russophile”? Because he helped elevate BRICS to the world stage and called for the end of the war in Ukraine? Do you think when when wars end, the national lines stay exactly where they were during the war? Do you think that all the countries that are invited to attend G7 are buddy-buddy and have never had poor diplomatic relationships?
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Playing both sides is a far cry from being a Russophile.
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Lulu has shown himself to be a Russiophile, Putin enabler. He’s telling the truth.
“I actually used a very secret technique there called lying”
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Why should any NATO country (beside maybe Turkey) not immediately arrest him?
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It is a false narrative that doing anything against russian aggression automatically means WW3.
And this false narrative is deliberately spread by pro russian channels so that Russia gets challenged as little as possible.
Putin is a war criminal and should be arrested, if Russia then chooses to go to war (which I doubt) they will see how it serves them.
You mean a false narrative that has been US policy since 1940? This isn’t “just doing something”, this is a direct act of war. Removing a head of state is quite literally referred to as a decapitation strike.
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That is a de facto state of war between NATO and Russia.
Repeating this doesn’t make it any more true.
Which Russian politician would throw away his new reign for an attack on NATO which might mean WW3, but which definitely will mean the total and utter destruction of Russia as a nation.Removed by mod
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NATO is not at war with Russia.
And what does that have to do with arresting a war criminal?
Arresting the leader of a sovereign nation amounts at least to a diplomatic crisis, and at worst to a declaration of war.
And before George Bush is brought to trial I don’t think the West has much credibility in dealing with war criminals.
Oh, no
He’s only a war criminal if convicted in a court of law.
No, I’m not defending Putin in the slightest bit, I’m simply stating that just because people across the globe have labelled him as a war criminal, doesn’t automatically make that official.
And that’s why the ICC issued a warrant and any sane country should execute the warrant. We just want to talk to him…
Eh… the international legal system is not very functional so I’m not sure I agree with this. By that definition Hitler was not a war criminal either because he died before going to trial.
Plenty of war criminals already living freely in NATO countries.
Cy Borgman: “I could call up my old pal Hank Kissinger! I’m sure he has a few war crimes he never got around to!”
Harley Quinn: “Mm… I know we’re criminals, but are we really WAR criminals?”
From the excellent Harley Quinn cartoon
Excellent cartoon. There’s also “Dr. Henry Killinger” from Venture Bros which was hilariously devious.
How do you figure?
I think it’s not necessarily whether countries would or wouldn’t arrest him. It’s more, if he’s invited to a summit or otherwise making travel arraignments, he gets confirmation they don’t intend to arrest him. If a country doesn’t commit to not arresting him, he just wouldn’t go. If a country says they won’t arrest him, then arrest him, it calls into question that country’s diplomacy.
I am fully pro ukraine.
Because if they arrest him, there could easily be bloodshed outside of Ukraine. As much as nato countries are happy to support Ukraine currently, they aren’t interested in inviting conflict to their own borders
Acting on behalf of the ICC, not the nation, I could see it happening and not causing too much issue. Putin won’t be going anywhere that may possibly do so though, so it’s not worth considering.
Russia barely has the logistics capability to defeat a country right next door.
Ignoring the fact the Brazil has a defensive treaty with the US, how exactly is Russia going to do an amphibious invasion?
This is all ignoring that the first thing Russia would do is turn on itself once Putin was out of the picture.
Probably far from enough to make a difference but Russia has troops and bases in neighboring Venezuela.
It would still be a logistical nightmare considering the distances involved between Venezuela’s border and the important Brazilian cities and the whole Amazon rainforest in between them.
Huh? Russia could just attempt assassinations, terrorist style attacks, etc
Again I’m not saying it’s the wrong thing to arrest him, just that it has consequences
As a Brazillian, I think it would probably be good if we were at NATO, but we’re not.
At this point Ukraine might even himars him on sight
Maybe it’s like Hitler and they don’t want Putin being replaced by someone competent at war.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”.
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That’s for domestic crimes. International crimes like genocide, torture and other war crimes have no functional immunity for a head of state. Pinochet for example.
That’s why Putin didn’t go to South Africa.
It would be a shame if putin’s plane had to make an unscheduled landing on the way there.
Or if it had a Rapid Unplanned Disassembly event, midair, over the ocean
That works too, although I’d prefer to see him rot in jail. Sudden death is too quick and easy for people who have done what he has.
Agreed
“We can’t just arrest him. That would be RUDE.”
“It’s not an unscheduled landing, it’s a special controlled fast emergency touch-down operation.”
If Im president of Brazil.
I see the loophole here…
That’s a window
I’ll put $20 in him sending a body double.
They best have good security, one random with a gun would be hailed as a hero by the western world if they took out Putin.
Que raro! El socialismo latino…
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