It doesn't matter who or what gave him the right. we're talking about realistic on the ground situations, not a court of law. If you want to sue him in icc and enforce the judgment be my guest, but in the real world, for better or worse, might makes right and there's nothing you can do about it unless you've got a million-man army armed …
It doesn't matter who or what gave him the right. we're talking about realistic on the ground situations, not a court of law. If you want to sue him in icc and enforce the judgment be my guest, but in the real world, for better or worse, might makes right and there's nothing you can do about it unless you've got a million-man army armed to the teeth, or if you want to pay for that. You're looking for consistency in Putin's thinking and you won't find it except he seems to think Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are the tripartite successors to east-slavic Kieran rus and everyone else can go to hell, and refuse to take him seriously (like biden and zelensky did) and prepare to go to war. You make lovely beautiful arguments that would do wonderful in a gilded court of law - but that's not where we are.
It doesn't matter who or what gave him the right. we're talking about realistic on the ground situations, not a court of law. If you want to sue him in icc and enforce the judgment be my guest, but in the real world, for better or worse, might makes right and there's nothing you can do about it unless you've got a million-man army armed to the teeth, or if you want to pay for that. You're looking for consistency in Putin's thinking and you won't find it except he seems to think Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are the tripartite successors to east-slavic Kieran rus and everyone else can go to hell, and refuse to take him seriously (like biden and zelensky did) and prepare to go to war. You make lovely beautiful arguments that would do wonderful in a gilded court of law - but that's not where we are.