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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Well, I do not believe that the World Court ruling will change Putin’s mind or influence him at all. And if it is agreed he should be prosecuted for war crimes, it will not happen while he is in office or while stays in his own country afterwards.
So as I said, it’s impotent.
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And yet you recognise that to avoid prosecution he has to stay in his own country.
For the president of one of the five permanent members of the security council, and a major nuclear power, which has permanent ambitions to play a leading role in geopolitics, to have to stay within his own borders for fear of arrest and extradition, is a major penalty.
Such consequences hardly represent impotence.