International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin

I doubt that this will amount to much. It's basically impossible to execute a warrant against a head of state, unless they are first removed from power.

While Putin can just stay in Russia until the day he dies to avoid any potential arrests in other states... this is still significant, because it puts pressure on him to do so.

If things go south for him and lower ranked officials/military decide to boot Putin's ass out, he will have no safe place to escape to except other states that don't recognize the ICC authority, many of which will be far more easily pressured thru other means than Russia.

China would be the best place to escape to but if he no longer holds any power he's useless to them.

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The lengths they'll go through to NOT just regulate firearms

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So, they're trying to solve America's school shooting problem by installing prison cells?

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The Vivaldi option.

For kidnapping children!

They're focusing on this and not, more militarily focused war crimes, like killing POWs. So that's still on the table. It's also a very easy sell, politically. Nations can quibble about military actions all day long. But kidnapping children is going to be hard for talking heads to defend.

It's one of the reasons western countries haven't been sending things like F-16s and F-15s. Ukrainian pilots are already familiar with the MIG-29, SU-24, SU-25, and SU-27. Giving them entirely new planes wasn't all that useful because they'd have to train pilots from scratch on them. But these are perfect because no training is necessary.

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Arrest warrant issued for Putin. Things are about to get spicy.

I think one F35 would actually do more than six F-16's.

There's just so much AAA in Ukraine right now, I don't see non-stealth jets being able to do much before getting shot down.

But one F-35 could go anywhere and bomb anything. One or two times per day you could have a near guaranteed destruction of something major that the Russians have behind the front lines. Troop shelters, train stations, big ammo dumps that are too far for HIMARS. All of those would be great for an F-35.

Not that it'll actually happen. It won't. But it would be awesome if it did.

Time to relieve Russia of its powers in the security council too

> why are SVB depositors getting bailed out when others won't ?

because the depositors at other small banks don't lobby government

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Imagine that same 60k spread out over 10 years for raises for for the teacher assigned to that room. … I’d be the best teacher in no time

> You'll think so but you'll be wrong.

Do you have any data showing that the average American has NO idea that Native American lands were taken?

> Ha...you're one of those. It's OK we raped and killed the inhabitants of the land...we had military power and they didn't. Everybody did it.

Show me where I said it's OK. I just said that this is what happens. Welcome to reality - it's shitty.

> I was born and raised in another country and I've been to others.

Same here. Maybe you should read some history then and you'll find a mountain of skulls that laid the foundations of almost every single country.

> You don't compare yourself to worse countries, you compare and hold yourself to higher standards.

I agree and I am. I'm tired of the "loser talk" where ignorant people believe that the US is the worst country or even a bad country. Those people need to visit other countries. We're not the greatest but we're not the worst by far.

> It's not about nitpicking, it's about being honest.

Where was I dishonest?

> You can admit that the United States is a great country with a lot of horrible shit in our history (old history and recent past).

That's my entire point. I'm glad we agree. Not sure why there's an argument then.

Appeasement never works, if it did Russia would've been satisfied with Crimea

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Is that a drop ceiling? I hope the thing is sealed off on top…….