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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.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] toastus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jasory@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

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.