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.
If Im president of Brazil.
I see the loophole here…
I’ll put $20 in him sending a body double.
Maybe Putin is already dead/missing and all the body doubles are just trying to act like him until something is resolved
Basically Weekend at Putin’s
Zombie Putin?
мозги!
It would be a shame if putin’s plane had to make an unscheduled landing on the way there.
“It’s not an unscheduled landing, it’s a special controlled fast emergency touch-down operation.”
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.
“I lied” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 2024.
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“I actually used a very secret technique there called lying”
Would actually be a chad move
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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.
I thought Brazil was a member of the ICC in just the way SA was
International law is fairly optional. Will there be consequences if he doesn’t have Putin arrested? I doubt it.
Also, the South African president tried to make the same statement that he wouldn’t be arrested, but the local government said they would do it, so he was forced to uninvite Putin.
It will be interesting to see if a similar dynamic unfolds, but I think the internal politics of Brazil are rather different.
I don’t think any sane country would arrest Putin. Deny him entry sure. But not arrest him. Declaring war on Russia, even if they are a paper tiger today, is not going to be in anybody’s best interest
Exceptions for Ukraine and Poland. They would absolutely arrest Putin on sight.
Why should any NATO country (beside maybe Turkey) not immediately arrest him?
As a Brazillian, I think it would probably be good if we were at NATO, but we’re not.
NATO is not at war with Russia.
How do you figure?
And what does that have to do with arresting a war criminal?
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.
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.
We’d arrest him but he’d have to set foot in Germany, or at least Europe, first. The US are hardly going to extradite him, aren’t they.
No European country would arrest Putin, let alone a NATO country, and especially not Germany lol. They wouldn’t even allow him into the country in the first place.
I think they were talking about Bush. While I think Cheney deserves it more, was there ever an arrest warrant for either of them?
World war 3 is going to be a total downer for everyone, most countries will want to avoid it, or at least try not to be the one to start it.
Not to mention the president of a country travels as a diplomat. Arresting diplomats is something that’s frowned upon internationally.
Arresting the president of a country, or kidnapping the president of a country, is a pretty clear declaration of war.
Let’s say by some miracle war doesn’t immediately break out, well the country you’ve just pissed off has a bunch of hostages immediately available, all of your diplomats and citizens in their borders. As much as we want to talk about rule of law, at the international level between countries it’s all about capabilities.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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”.
Yeah. Putin would absolutely have diplomatic immunity as a head of state visiting another country. Arresting him would put the whole concept of diplomatic immunity at risk.
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.
