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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year.

Lula, speaking to the Firstpost news show at the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Delhi on Saturday, said Putin would be invited to next year’s event.

He added that he himself planned to attend a BRICS bloc of developing nations meeting due in Russia before the Rio meeting.

“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” Lula said. “What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”

The statement comes after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did not say anything you just quoted. Please check the record.

I did say the leader of Brazil, in the good faith execution of his job, will have to look like he supports Russia sometimes. And sometimes he'll have to look like he supports the USA. That's his job. So we can't determine what his real loyalties are

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lula, first and foremost, has loyalty to Brazil. Geopolitics is like a game of cards where everyone is cheating. He's also significantly to the left (somewhere between socdem and socialist), so it's fair to say that he doesn't want to participate in that game and would rather not be involved with the neo-imperialist nations of NATO and G7, hence BRICS to stand up for the Global South. He's not going to arrest Putin for a few reasons, mainly because heads of state are diplomats and there will be several bad implications when arresting foreign diplomats without committing a crime on foreign soil. Most countries don't like the US or NATO. Making US-centric political analyses on foreign politics is a colonial mindset, so consider learning more about foreign leaders and their political outlooks.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago

I totally agree with everything you just said. Where's the conflict coming from? Where did I demonstrate a colonial mindset?

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You know what, I'm sorry for being hostile towards you. I've gotten too used to people disagreeing with me when discussing foreign politics that I saw your comments as disagreement instead of expanding my point with your opinions. I should have tried to better understand what you were saying first

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

No worries. It's been a great conversation. I'm glad we had it.

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