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Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
Putin may now qualify as a war criminal, according to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. War crimes include willful killing and extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
newyorker.com
Putins Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal
The West condemns Russias aggression as barbaric and horrific, as Biden warns that conflict could drag on for weeks or months.
2:44 PM · Feb 25, 2022
Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw
Putin may now qualify as a war criminal, according to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. War crimes include willful killing and extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
newyorker.com
Putins Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal
The West condemns Russias aggression as barbaric and horrific, as Biden warns that conflict could drag on for weeks or months.
2:44 PM · Feb 25, 2022
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/putins-historic-miscalculation-may-make-him-a-war-criminal
In the eyes of the world and almost certainly history, Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine on Thursday was an epic miscalculation drawing comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein for cold-blooded aggression that could challenge the world order and change its borders. The Russian leader appeared almost delusional in a pre-dawn speech from the Kremlin announcing a special military operation to protect Donbas, the eastern region where Russian-backed separatists have waged a war for eight years. Putin, instead, immediately ordered Russian tanks into Ukraine and air strikes on the capital and more than a dozen cities in a country of forty million people. Peace on our continent has been shattered, the nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told reporters. We now have war in Europe on a scale and of a type we thought belonged to history. Putins reckless attack risks countless innocent lives, Stoltenberg warned.
Putin is now, at minimum, a pariah condemned by leaders across the world. Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war, President Biden said in a speech to the nation announcing new sanctions on Russian financial institutions and élites. He charged that Putin has much larger ambitions than Ukraine. He wants to, in fact, reëstablish the former Soviet Union, Biden said. His ambitions are completely contrary to the place where the rest of the world has arrived. In one of a flurry of statements reflecting outrage globally, the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, called Russias act barbaric and dismissed its justifications as cynical. In a tweet, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said he was appalled by Putins horrific decision to pursue a path of bloodshed and destruction. Putins military offensive put him on the diplomatic defensive. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, called the attack a turning point in history that will have a profound and lasting impact across the continent.
Putin may now also qualify as a war criminal, according to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. War crimes include willful killing and extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly. The term has been inconsistently interpreted and unevenly applied to leaders or countriesincluding to the U.S. and its officialswho have initiated aggression for reasons considered unjustified. In Ukraine, Putins war of choice has clearly violated international law through his invasion of a sovereign country and attempt to oust its government. After an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting, on Wednesday, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned that the Russian invasion could be the worst war of the century with consequences not only devastating for Ukraine, not only tragic for the Russian Federation but for the entire world.
Putin has lied at every stage of the Ukraine crisis, insisting last year that he had no military ambitions in Ukraine even as he steadily amassed a force of nearly two hundred thousand troops on three fronts. During a joint press conference with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, last week, Putin played down the prospect of war. Do we want this or not? Of course not, he said, in response to a question. That is exactly why we put forward proposals for a process of negotiations. As he spoke, however, his military was setting up field hospitals near the Ukrainian border stocked with fresh blood supplies. You dont need blood unless you plan on starting a war, President Biden noted on Tuesday.
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Putin's Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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alittlelark
(18,890 posts)1. Those tiny little pig eyes set in a psychopath face.......
..........charming........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Kablooie
(18,632 posts)5. When Madeleine Albright first met him she described him as ...
Almost reptilian.
Manfred Arcane
(59 posts)7. Well, long before they divored Putin's ex-wife said he was a vampire...
Here's a link to the story:
Putin a vampire, wife says
"Unfortunately, my husband is a vampire", Lyudmila told Irene with a rueful smile. "But he is just the right man for me -- he doesn't drink and he doesn't beat me."
Gore1FL
(21,130 posts)2. He's not going to make it to any trial. nt
Deuxcents
(16,197 posts)3. Do you think he'll be dead or
Who will enforce the charge ... would it be Ukraine or the UN?
Gore1FL
(21,130 posts)4. I just figure that he'll either completely avoid a trial through luck, delay, or death. nt
blue-wave
(4,352 posts)8. May make him?
I say he became a war criminal a long time ago.
Tetrachloride
(7,839 posts)9. I agree. "may" is a strange hedge
I ascribe it to lawyer habits.