India, like the USA, is not signed up to the ICC, but what will Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Putin faces a dilemma now, if he shows up in Delhi for this year’s G20 in September. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin Friday.
Both Germany and Argentina are signatories to the Rome Statute, two of 123 nations who are obliged if Putin pitches up on their doorstep again to extradite him to the Hague to face trial as a war criminal. His love and use of the global limelight helped him at home too, bolstering his tough guy, bare-chested, bear-hunting image as protector of Russians, holding back supposed malign machinations of NATO marauding the country’s borders.īut all of that is over.
Putin’s world just got smaller.Īt the Hamburg G20 in 2017 he spent hours talking alone with arguably the most powerful man in the world at that moment, former President Donald Trump.Ī year later at the next G20 leader’s summit in Buenos Aires, Putin high-fived Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman less than two months after suspicion fell on the Saudi over the brutal murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi.īasking in international focus he could thumb his nose at the world, or manipulate its leaders, in person, a perk if you will, of his stubborn, decades-long grip on power. While the Kremlin is dissing the International Criminal Court’s war crimes charges against him, inside the Kremlin walls another reality will be emerging. President Vladimir Putin always relished his global outings, burnishing his image as one of the big guns running the world.
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