But Ambassador Van Schaack has a more optimistic outlook: "Putin and will enjoy some impunity while they stay within Russia, but what we have seen is perpetrators don’t stay within their home states. They want to go shopping in Europe or go on vacation somewhere, and they get identified, and then the law enforcement is activated.
Putin has others do his shopping while he stays put in Russia at one of his many palaces. His cronies have to be named as co-conspirators in his international child-trafficking.
ETA: I’d love to see the ICC designate the leadership of the Putin administration, the FSB, the GRU, Wagner, and the general staff of the Russian military as criminal organisations. There’s precedent for doing this, one that closes a lot of loopholes these scumbags use to escape consequences.
I keep hoping Ukraine will bomb his Black Sea “corruption palace.” That whole area is probably super protected by Russian military and the FSB but they could find a way through.
Seems like I’ve read that Putin never spends any time there (anymore), though, maybe because it got revealed. He probably just had another crony funnel $60 million of government money into building another palace (or two, or three) somewhere else, and preemptively made sure any potential whistleblowers fell out of windows…
The palace was reportedly gutted because of mould. Friendly journalists were allowed in to take photos that would “prove” that it had never been completed and its luxurious interiors never existed.
Publications should adjust their style guides to refer to Putin as “internationally wanted fugitive” from now on. But of course “хуйло” is still acceptable for brevity.
But Moscow has insisted Kyiv must first accept Russia’s annexation of Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south. There can be no peace plan “that does not take into account today’s realities regarding Russian territory, with the entry of four regions into Russia”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
… expecting Putin to be arrested, and expecting South Africa to lose face if they don’t do it, are two different ways of failing to understand how the world works
