The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will surely be held accountable by the International Criminal Tribunal, aoording to Errol Mendes, professor of law at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
“One should look at what happened to Milosevic to understand what fate awaits Putin in the end. He believes he is invulnerable and out of reach. He is convinced that he will never be held to account. Milosevic thought the same,” says Mendes.
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According to the expert, Milosevic’s accountability became possible thanks to the West’s unwavering stance on punishing serious crimes.
“This may take 10, 20 years or even longer, but Ukraine and its allies need to start implementing the same strategy that allowed Milosevic to be brought before the International Criminal Tribunal. I am convinced Putin will end up there as well.”
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Then please help me think, why would Russia be irrelevant for an invasion of China?
As I said before, because they aren’t powerful enough to be relevant. Even if we imagine this pretty unlikely scenario that US for some reason is waging proper hot war with China - and I can’t envision it for real, but let’s entertain it for a second - Russia isn’t doing shit in that scenario. Their military power (or lack thereof) pretty clearly demonstrated in a current 3 day war they stuck in for the last 4 years, their economic power is demonstrated by everything else they did for the last 30 years, and even the land bordering China is so shitty, so remote, so isolated, and so empty, it will not be helpful to do anything about it. If US will want to move some troops or tanks there, it will be cheaper and quicker for them to walk across the ocean’s floor than cross the whole Europe and then across the length of Russia.
Mongolia is more relevant in this scenario, and that’s not a sentence anyone said for the last 500 years.
Now they have to fight to be there and China can help Russia to defend, on Russian soil.
To me that’s a clear advantage.
Btw, the US cannot reach Mongolia without crossing Russia.
If you read my comment carefully, you would see that my point was: there is no advantage in doing so.
They don’t have to come through Europe.
By the same logic they don’t want to cross China to reach Beijing.
The empty Russian land would be much better.
Have you…seen the map of the world?
What do you mean? Crossing tundra is not fun but easier than fortified Tibet.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Do you know where the US is?
Do you know what a boat is?
We are talking about the relevance of Russia to China’s defence. If Russia would fall under the influence of the US, the US could stage weapons there to attack China from the north. The weapons would come by boat.