'It's justified': Joe Biden welcomes ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

No one would get through his phalanx of goons to arrest him. However, his destinations are already limited to places the ICC has no jurisdiction, so nothing has changed in that department.

There are two arrest warrants: Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his head of the children's commission, who is hoarding 23 Ukrainian children herself while pushing through illegal adoptions of other Ukrainian children illegally seized and deported to Russia.

They claim it;s humanitarian, so did the Argentine dictators who disappeared the children of people they didn't like. The ICC considers it cultural genocide and a war crime. There is nothing humanitarian about snatching children from their home country and trying to turn them into little Russians, especially when their parents are still alive and desperately trying to get them back.

The last head of state the ICC indicted was Qadaffi and we know what happened to him. He didn't get arrested, either, but identifying him as a criminal went a long way toward convincing others in Libya that he was vulnerable.

Besides, the price for increasing power is both isolation and paranoia.

What this has done is kill his government's ability to negotiate any sort of a deal to end the war on any terms but Ukraine's.

That means the return of all their children.

Putin saying ICJ is western puppet ignores the fact many West nations aren’t members either.

With membership will come the privileges of engaging in the prosecution of all war criminals like Putin, instead of cheering from the peanut gallery.

More Colonial Hypocrisy, now nuclear armed.

I think it's the war mongering Rethuglican politicians who want immunity from prosecution. Cheney The Dick and his dummy GeeDumbya should have faced trial in The Hague for their two fake wars for fun and profit which cost $3T and murdered over 500K people.

You can argue it was a bad idea but Al Queda absolutely was based there and had the permission and protection of the Taliban during 9/11. The US had to take some action over the death of 3,000 American citizens, more then Pearl Harbor & about 2 million Japanese died for that.
They had their chance to turn over Osama bin Laden and made their choice.

Why haven't Democratic presidents joined?

Putin could come to the US with full immunity granted to foreign leaders and without fear of arrest because the US is not a part of the ICC. Bill Clinton signed the treaty, but didn't (wouldn't) send it the Senate for ratification. Every subsequent president, in turn, also refused to submit the treaty for ratification.