Brazilian President Luiz Lula, who’s more than a bit too Kremlin-friendly but still light years less of an asshole than his disgraced predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, has sheepishly uninvited Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from next year’s G20 summit after realizing that, like South Africa’s leadership recently found, he can’t really get out of the international obligation to place the evil tyrant under arrest on the war crimes warrant issued by the ICC, Al-Jazeera reports.
Attending this year’s G20 summit in India over the weekend, Lula had told a local paper that “If I’m the president of Brazil and if [Putin] comes to Brazil, there’s no way that he will be arrested,” which then changed to “I don’t know if Brazil’s justice will detain him. It’s the judiciary that decides, it’s not the government” on Monday, plainly after a “Sir, shut the fuck up” from his advisors.
Lula then bitched about the UN’s war crimes court, saying “I want to know why we are members but not the United States, not Russia, not India, not China. I’m not saying I’m going to leave the court. I just want to know why Brazil is a signatory.” Again, not really good, still better than Bolsonaro.