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Ukraine Asks Mexico To Arrest Russia's Putin If He Attends Inauguration. (www.rferl.org)

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US would not arrest Putin, Mexico would. The US just happens like have an interest in arresting Putin and a lot of leverage over Mexico. That is besides it being international law, so most countries would actually like that.

Also nobody Russia would not start a war over the arrest of Putin. Anybody in the Russian leadership, who has the power to declare a war against the US, Netherlands, Mexico and/or NATO also has the power to replace Putin. So why would they try to bring Putin back, so Putin can take their power?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Anybody in the Russian leadership, who has the power to declare a war against the US, Netherlands, Mexico and/or NATO also has the power to replace Putin. So why would they try to bring Putin back, so Putin can take their power?

Russian General: God damn USA just ruined my 2 years of planning to slip some polonium into Putin's tea so I could take over!

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...but the US does and would be rather easy to do it for Mexico.

That's you and your comment was clearly talking about the United States arresting Putin in Mexico. That's why I responded the way that I did.

Also nobody Russia would not start a war over the arrest of Putin.

That's easy to say here on the Internet but the extra-national arrest of a countries current Head of State is no small thing and it's plenty likely that Russia (or any other country) would strongly object.

So why would they try to bring Putin back, so Putin can take their power?

All 120 or so people at the top of the Russian Hierarchy are loyal to Putin personally, that's why.

What happens when one of the 120 odd power brokers calls up the Hague and says "You release Putin and we stop war tomorrow and pay Ukraine 500 Billion in reparations. You don't release Putin and we come for him anyway."

That's some wicked calculus for the ICC to deal with.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Then you misread. I used the word "for" and not "in" Mexico.

When Wagner marched on Moscow , that was a direct thread to Putin. The military flew a few attacks against them, but for the most part Wagner just marched onto Moscow for days seized Russian towns and nearly all of the rest of the Russian security forces did just do nothing. So those guys who did nothing to protect Putin, when he a few thousand men marched against Moscow to take power are supposed to start a war to against a few million men, which are better armed and have nukes to bust Putin out of prison?