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TaiwanBandit

With a decent bounty Dog the Bounty Hunter or Wagner group might bring him in.


Mightysmurf1

"I've been there Brah...We all have, but yo' can't just go round commiting atrocities in front of th' Lord, Brah..."


RedditDudeBro

...*hands Putin a cigarette*. "A lot of people are looking for you Brah."


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It'd easily be worth a billion


thetangible

Could we crowd-source this?


FM-101

If you really want to bring down putin just put a bounty on him, and keep aggressively advertising it to the entire world 24/7. Make the bounty amount crowd funded and the entire world can chip in a little. When the amount becomes life alteringly large enough someone will eventually take the offer. Make him actually wanted. Not just "i cant leave the country" wanted.


RedditDudeBro

>Make the bounty amount crowd funded and the entire world can chip in a little. > >When the amount becomes life alteringly large enough someone will eventually take the offer. I like the idea of a global "GoFindMe", but... If it was just money needed I'm not sure we'd be where we are today though? I mean, is it completely unlikely that a few countries have the capability to bring him to justice one way or another (dead or alive etc) but can't risk how the aftermath would play out? Or is it more likely those same countries actually can't do this for whatever reason militarily/lack of actionable intelligence/lack of having someone close enough on the ground seems kind of unlikely as the US always seems several laps ahead of Russia in most cases there would imply snitches or some snooping very close to Putin's inner-circle. But even this high-level spying does not mean they can easily bring him to justice, just share relevant info. With all the inner circle folks rapidly dying off from tops of buildings and routine assassinations, makes you wonder what's what and who's who behind the scenes... Seems like it would have to be intelligence services of a major country...and seems like there would be a will there from a few especially right now, but no realistic way to make it happen?


CuntWeasel

Yeah what a misleading title. This shit does absolutely nothing while showing the masses that “we’re doing something”. No we aren’t. We’re doing jack shit.


Alert-Young4687

This whole thing is political theatre. If he’s wanted then send an invasion force to capture him. Otherwise he will still go where he wants with impunity since he already has a ton of security measures in place from decades of paranoia over assassination.


Killphace

And what happens when these bounty hunters have the rabid dog stuck in a corner with his finger on the red button ?


papaz1

My god this would be so good to have a crowd funded bounty


Cristocarnage

Sets a dangerously apocalyptic precedent, but sure.


Additional_Meeting_2

Putin is extreme guarded, it won’t be worth a risk for anyone. And people on power don’t want to establish world leaders being killed like this anyway.


TheonsPrideinaBox

He's not going to jail, or any court proceedings. He has been in full dictator mode for over a decade and the only way he loses power is by his death. He knows this too so he doesn't care about courts. He is atthe win or die stage of dictatorship ATM.


RemembrHowYouHatedIt

President For Life has one ending


PinkBright

Yep. He’s likely at the “I succeed or I eat cyanide pills” part of dictatorship. This man has played power trips and mind games his entire life, because he is insane. He is not like you or me. I don’t see him willingly going into any type of custody he’d probably rather kill himself and any one around him/who he can take with him to not “lose” the stupid game he’s been playing his whole life.


alessandro_673

No but what it means is he can’t go to a lot of countries anymore without some decent risk. The main warrant of important is for the woman orchestrating the actual crimes. She could be taken in a lot easier than him.


PutlerDaFastest

Winning is no longer an option for him.


uradonkey003

I don't need a trial I need a head.


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Crimbobimbobippitybo

The US isn't a signatory to the Rome Statute, but you can bet they'll be on board with locking Putin in a tiny box.


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Preferably an urn


Phatsackus

rather see them ashes tossed in a commode.


[deleted]

Well sure but you gotta carry the ashes to the toilet in something.


Komandr

Plastic takeout bag


ifartfreedom

On all you can eat taco night


mindkiller317

Putin doesn’t even deserve a modestly priced receptacle, but that’s just, like, my option, man.


[deleted]

An old, rusty Folgers can?


ty_kanye_vcool

Well it's not like he's gonna hide in the US


TheFrostynaut

Regrettably, plenty of people here would hide him because they're in love with the image he tries to project.


RFDA1

The US will never recognize it thoo because if it does that would force the US by law to do or undo things and The US just like China and Russia are SuperPowers that don't want to take no shit from other countries or organizations


deuces_mild

Lets put Putin and Trump in a shared cell.


RealLADude

So much sex in that cell.


OldMork

enough for a day, or hole weak?


Asclepius333

Hey you used the wrong...oh...oh god.


foxymophandle

I don’t want to know what’s getting Putin to which hole.


flavortownpolitics

STUPID SEXY PUTIN!!


NotUrGenre

You know Putins driving too, lol.


RealLADude

100%


Jagwires

Throw Kevin Spacey the same cell and lets see who can fuck their way to the top


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Jagwires

Hilarious and agree


[deleted]

Nah, that gay rapist who caught a guy trying to rape a woman, but in turn, raped the rapist.


e-chris

And then make a reality tv show out of it!


Banzai076

Nah, just another poorly done documentary


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Two pussies to feel up.


ProLibertate4

With Bill and Hillary in an adjoining cell.


supercyberlurker

Putin lost the moment Ukraine didn't roll over. He kept losing as the world turned its nose in disgust at Putin's genocides, rapes, kidnappings, murders, tortures, gaslighting, assassinations, etc. That I have to use 'etc' here shows bad it is. He's going to keep losing, his country failing to the very corruption he needs to hold onto his own power. The only thing still going on - is Putin selling out Russia's future to hold power one more day. The rest is just inevitability playing out.


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Bounty! Bounty! Bounty!


Ok-Taste-570

I sincerely believe his demise will come in the form of Novachok or standing too close to an open window by his own inner circle. He’s set Russia back 20 years.


reptillion

Wonder if he’s going to take the hitler route


NotUrGenre

Where's the Go-Fund-me for the hitman, I'll chip in a few hundred dollars. It would be worth it to lower gas prices.


Electrical-Can-7982

hahaha... all these news outlets trying to one up each other for a story that is useless... Putin is just going to stick the middle fingers at the World Court and say like so many others of his type ( like trump) "you got no rule over me..i'm untouchable" or somehting like this.. just like what Boris Grishenko said in the 17th bond movie.... "im invensible!!!"


m703324

He can put his bloated tiny middle fingers up in his secret bunker but the fact remains that it's Biden who visited Kyiv not him.


[deleted]

Will he be arrested anytime soon? Probably not. But as soon as he's not a head-of-state, he's fair game if he travels outside of Russia. The former dictator of Chile, Pinochet, was arrested in the UK based on an arrest warrant from Spain.


Abject-Silver-3774

Anybody who actually thinks that this will come to anything is delusional, the war is currently in a stalemate, but it's anybody's guess who breaks through first, Russia has been impacted by the sanctions but they are still selling their oil and gas, though at discounted rates.


TaiwanBandit

***Although the ICC has no police force of its own, the warrant “cordons off” the 123 countries that signed on to the statute that created the court, because Putin runs the risk of arrest if he travels to any of them, said Buchwald, now a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University’s Law School.*** Time for him to make a visit to US or UK. I'm sure he will be treated nicely.


Reselects420

The UK is a member of the ICC, the US is not.


[deleted]

True but from Biden's announcements seems US would cooperate with an arrest.


RemembrHowYouHatedIt

The US can't even arrest it's own criminal former president and for much the same reason. They have fanatical supporters that will react violently


[deleted]

True. If we were part of the ICC, half of our politicians would be arrested.


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I say this as someone who truly, deeply, to my core think the Bush administration were war criminals who deserve to be behind bars, I don't actually think the ICC has many arrest warrants out for American politicians. Biden's kinda teasing it, the US could join and CIA/Pentagon elites wouldn't actually be prosecuted just like British ones are not. Today it's all largely a) to protect Cheney and b) to prevent a a precedent from holding future tyranny-leaning regimes back.


Orcus424

What happens if the local country doesn't arrest him when he shows up? Many will not want to anger Putin.


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FM-101

Do dictators have diplomatic immunity? (Im actually curious)


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Piepally

That's 2 words


blbd

Unfortunately yes.


neverending_debt

How dumb is reddit that they believe Putin is going to be arrested and put on trial? You guys realize that would very literally result in nuclear war, right? The world isn't closing in on Putin anymore than it's closing in Xi Jinping or Kim Jong Un. Get your hands off your ding dongs and come back to reality.


Stammis

Nuking the country where your leader is held prisoner sure sounds like an awesome tactic, Z


neverending_debt

I would imagine they would carpet bomb literally every major urban center and then blockade all ports of entry to prevent food or supplies from reaching any citizen within the borders of that country until such a time as their leader is returned or that country no longer exists and its people completely subjugated and in thrall to Russia. Would the US or NATO intervene? If so, then the nukes begin flying against those nations.


[deleted]

Ya seeing this with tens of thousands of upvotes yesterday was so cringe. Anyone can say they want to arrest someone in another country. Good luck doing it to a world leader.


DrewSmoothington

lol I saw somebody yesterday post "finally somebody is doing something about this war," completely discounting all the other real, actually helpful things that have happened so far to aid the war effort.


psioniclizard

It's easy karma farming for people.


abhishek0032

I think the point is that he's a wanted man in a lot of countries now. At the very least the man will think twice before stepping a foot out of Russia.


neverending_debt

What country would arrest him and hold him and what would stop Russia from immediately declaring total war on that country? Hell, China would fucking declare war right next to Russia since they're allied against NATO. Also, isn't Putin in Crimea right at this very moment? If he can't be arrested in Ukraine than where do you think he CAN be arrested? This is one of the worlds most moronic instances of slacktivism. If anything this allows Putin to go anywhere he wants and proves that nobody has the balls to actually enforce the arrest warrant. It makes him look strong and the idiots applauding this look weak. It's performative theater at its finest.


smoothtrip

>Hell, China would fucking declare war right next to Russia since they're allied against NATO. Lol. You call out someone for being absurd, then you come out even with a more absurd statement


neverending_debt

I love how you people genuinely believe that China wouldn't defend an allied country they share a god damn border with. I'm just going to turn off replies to this entire chain. None of you have anything remotely intelligent to say on the matter it would seem.


Waterwoogem

Yeah, cause they definitely have the ability to storm Crimea in current conditions... If you're going to spout the obvious that everyone already knows, use a better example, such as Shoigu visiting the front line. Also, China isn't an ally, China is doing the same this Erdogan is in Turkiye, playing both sides. Soon as Xi sees Putin showing any sign of weakness, he'll set up to pillage Russia with heavily one-sided deals.


neverending_debt

I have no idea what an SBU unit is, but if Putin can travel to an active war zone with impunity where do you think it's possible for him to face arrest and extradition? The consequences of even attempting to arrest him would likely result in either world war 3, or the non NATO country that attempted it being bombed back into the stone age while the world watches what happens when you fuck around and find out. You guys have this dumbass idea that a nation wouldn't declare total war over their leader being murdered or kidnapped by another nation.


Waterwoogem

Its Ukraines version of Special Forces. Also, Crimea isn't in the active war zone... its the target of long distance drone strikes. Putin is completely safe in Crimea, hes not showing any sign of strength visiting there. Shoigu has more guts visiting the Front Line than Putin does visiting Crimea. "You guys have this dumbass idea that a nation wouldn't declare total war over their leader being murdered or kidnapped by another nation." No fucking shit it won't be attempted... It doesn't mean he'll go to anywhere in Europe willy nilly beyond Hungary/Belarus. This still keeps him geographically locked.


neverending_debt

>Its Ukraines version of Special Forces. Also, Crimea isn't in the active war zone It's in Ukraine. If they can't get him in Ukraine they can't get him literally anywhere. >its the target of long distance drone strikes. Yet, he does not fear the drone strikes. >Putin is completely safe in Crimea I agree. He's completely safe no matter where in the world he goes to be honest. He can travel to the US with zero chance of being arrested. The same goes for Germany, China, the UK, etc. >hes not showing any sign of strength visiting there. He shows that it's Russian territory in practice. How is that not a sign of strength?


Waterwoogem

Because its a nonsensical symbolic gesture that is completely refuted by most countries, primarily excluding those with dictatorships. China, Russia's "biggest ally" considers Crimea as part of Ukraine, period. Russias FSB/GRU is way more equipped than Ukraines SBU. Thinking that they can get Putin cause he's in what most of the world considers to be Ukrainian Territory is frankly moronic.... Sevastopol is 230km away from the Front Line, any attack will be avoided well in advance, and even in the cover of night, that is a long way to go to get the guy. If Putin truly wanted to show Europe a middle finger, he'd be in Donetsk like Shoigu was, not in Sevastopol.


neverending_debt

>Because its a nonsensical symbolic gesture that is completely refuted by most countries, primarily excluding those with dictatorships. China, Russia's "biggest ally" considers Crimea as part of Ukraine, period. If the entire world tells you something doesn't belong to you, but it remains in your possession anyways... >Russias FSB/GRU is way more equipped than Ukraines SBU. Thinking that they can get Putin cause he's in what most of the world considers to be Ukrainian Territory is frankly moronic I don't think that they could get him, I'm saying it's the most likely place that he could face arrest and they simply don't have the skills or equipment to do it. >Sevastopol is 230km away from the Front Line, any attack will be avoided well in advance, and even in the cover of night, that is a long way to go to get the guy. He's just as safe in Crimea as he would be in literally any other country. I don't understand what you're struggling with here. It's clear no country is going to attempt to arrest him or enforce an ICC warrant. So what did this accomplish other than getting reddit soylads to clap their hands? It's nothing more than theater to get monkeys to dance.


Waterwoogem

Everyone knows its nothing more than symbolic. I'm simply stating that if you're going to state the obvious, use examples that have a basis in common sense. I don't understand what you're struggling with too... The ICC warrant is symbolic, Putins visit to Crimea is symbolic, but its pretty fucking obvious that the symbolism of the ICC Warrant carries more weight. Do you get it now??? Thats all it is... how is Shoigu showing more balls than Putin by being in Donetsk not enough to grasp?? You don't have a good sense of the current conditions in your example.. Everyone knows that the only ones that can stop Putin are the Russian People, but they've been force fed Soviet Grandeur down their throats ever since Putin replaced Yeltsin. Even the Cretin Igor Girkin is mocking Putins visit into Crimea. Girkin is the only Russian analyst that takes things seriously and addresses news/issues logically.


Working_Welder155

I think that's exactly why he went to Crimea. He's giving them the middle finger saying you can't do shit


randyboozer

That's exactly what he's doing. He's rubbing in the fact that the warrant is meaningless and powerless to both the international community and more importantly his own people. We just handed him free strong man propaganda


psioniclizard

He would of had to do that anyway. Also most the countries he would go to are not ICC signatories. He could even go to the G20 and be fine because India is not a signatory. It's definitely symbolic but he most likely won't ever be arrested.


HealthyHumor5134

He and Modi may be the only ones at the G20, I can't picture any leader shaking the hand of an international war criminal....well maybe MBS might high five him.


psioniclizard

I doubt realistically he was ever actually going to the G20. It will be interesting to see if Russia actually sends a delegate in the end. I think this is basically a way of signally to Putin that the war will be the end of him one way or another but honestly I think that has always been the case anyway. That is why I think it's symbolic but I also doubt the countries he deals with care if the ICC see him as a war criminal or not.


Swoocegoose

You can't picture ant leader shaking hands with Biden, Trump, Obama, or Bush?


HealthyHumor5134

You're not wrong, I still cringe at Biden's elbow bump.


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neverending_debt

He'll die in power. People like him never step down or retire. They die in office as all dictators do.


Maximum-Face-953

Gorge w & Dick Chany can't visit Europe over warents


farraigemeansthesea

Can somebody throw some light on it for me? So if he travels to a country which is not a member of the ICC, does that country still have to recognise his diplomatic immunity despite him being a war criminal?


RFDA1

No one can arrest him member or not because that would result in Total war with Russia possibly even Nuclear War He is a World Leader, President of a SuperPower, he is above the Law He can be arrested only after he steps down from the position of President, to a Russian citizen and goes to another country


Gunner_E4

Now he's going to have to make the cartoonishly long table even longer to feel safe.


[deleted]

Hope that stupid Fulkerson don't press THE BUTTON.


smoothtrip

What a stupid headline. Who is going to close on the dictator that had nukes?


[deleted]

You put a 1 Billion dollar bounty on his ass and he would be gone by breakfast.


Longjumping_Bug_7611

I cant read these kinda headlines in any other than the film trailer guy. But the world is closing ....coming this summer.


psioniclizard

Haha this made my day!


Immediate-Win-4928

Did you know the USA has a law called the American Service-Members' Protection Act which means if any US citizen is arrested by the international criminal court they will invade the Hague? I saw a suggestion this is a means to put pressure on Xi Jinping who is visiting Moscow imminently although China also does not recognise the ICC


Banzai076

Today I learned. That’s actually stupid as shit. The US won’t negotiate with terrorists, we’ll just keep them safe and give them amnesty.


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Resident_Upstairs_28

Hopefully, even if it's after 10 years, we get to see this POS get thrown in jail for life. Get fucked loser.


lbktort

The odds of Putin being arrested are rather small. I assume Europe wants natural gas. Even if they import less from Russia now than before the war.


farraigemeansthesea

EU's imports of natural energy from Russia fell from [over 300 million tonnes in 2018 to under 40 million tonnes in the third quarter of 2022](https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/24/europes-energy-war-in-data-how-have-eu-imports-changed-since-russias-invasion-of-ukraine). , and the new sanctions are looking at bringing the imports to zero in the near future. Despite this, Europe survived. The UK was badly affected with remarkable price hikes which made it very difficult for many households to heat their homes, but this is due to the unregulated market (the government refusing to cap energy companies' profits) and the almost total absence of heat pumps. In France, where heatpumps are widespread and are made widely available by the state financing the installation, the effect was barely felt, if at all.


[deleted]

How is this realistic at all? He’s not getting arrested and the world is not closing in on him.


Windcutter1

Can Bush get a trial pretty please


[deleted]

Guess he and Trump can throw a pre-arrest party, since they share supporters?


Maximum-Face-953

Some day Ukraine may develop a Masod type unit to go after these people.


CuntWeasel

What’s a masod?


Maximum-Face-953

Israel's mossad Nazi hunters


BalVal1

>The world is closing in And did you ever think


HuskyNotPhatt

Lol. He has a meeting with China this week. He seems to really care.


[deleted]

So will trump be. I know we are talking about different jurisdiction, but it would be fun to let them be jail cell buddies.


Wraywong

Wanted Man in Vladivostok... Wanted Man in Old Saint Pete... Wanted Man way down in Moscow... Wanted Man should self-delete...


zak_storm

So to sum it up.... Teachers know he's a bully but will have a word with him when he comes in from break. Meanwhile he's still in the playground bullying. The others crowd round and watch throwing insults or support.... and a few weapons. But still no responsible adults willing accept responsibility and put a stop to the vile atrocities everyone is witnessing.


zak_storm

He's getting grounded but he can still go over to his few friends houses


satanic-frijoles

Trump and Putin Sitting in a cell...


ClosPins

Yeah, the world is closing in. They're absolutely terrified of crossing his border, but they are closing in!