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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Especially with how iffy planes leaving Russia have been lately…
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Happy little accidents
Open windows
Have you seen the sky lately, it’s raining cats, dogs, and AA missiles out there
Now the cocomelon song is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Thanks.
:p
Do it 😈
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“I lied” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 2024.
Would actually be a chad move
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How is he a “russophile”? Because he helped elevate BRICS to the world stage and called for the end of the war in Ukraine? Do you think when when wars end, the national lines stay exactly where they were during the war? Do you think that all the countries that are invited to attend G7 are buddy-buddy and have never had poor diplomatic relationships?
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“I actually used a very secret technique there called lying”
It would be a shame if putin’s plane had to make an unscheduled landing on the way there.
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.
Agreed
“We can’t just arrest him. That would be RUDE.”
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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?
Wouldn’t count it out
мозги!
I thought Brazil was a member of the ICC in just the way SA was
They are, but the country also depends a bit on Russia’s exports so the president tends to tip the scales in Putin’s side
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.
Brazil has a far stronger federal element to it right? Like the US
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.
Que raro! El socialismo latino…
