Forbes: Every Foreign Tour Could Be A One-way Trip For Putin
2- 6.07.2025, 15:29
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In a sense, the Russian dictator is already imprisoned.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wanted to join the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, but there is one nuance - he may be arrested and extradited to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes committed in Ukraine. This is according to Forbes.
It is known that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has already issued an arrest warrant for Putin, so Brazil, as a member of the court, has an international obligation to detain anyone who sets foot in the country while wanted by the ICC.
"Kremlin commissioners pressured the Brazilian president to guarantee that Putin would not be detained on ICC orders during the July meeting," the piece emphasized.
At the same time, the country's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hesitated, but still refused to grant Putin immunity, said Peter Dickinson, a prominent scholar at the Atlantic Council (one of Washington's leading internationalism think tanks).
Forbes emphasized, despite Putin displaying the image of an "all-powerful ruler," his movement in the world has become increasingly limited since he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"When his cruise missiles began bombing modern Ukrainian medical centers and ancient World Heritage cultural outposts, the European Union, Britain, Switzerland, Canada and the United States immediately turned against him," the piece stressed.
The publication reminded that today the ban on Putin's entry to the ISS member countries applies to 125 countries:
19 in Asia-Pacific,
28 in Latin America and the Caribbean,
33 in Africa,
45 in Europe.
Dickinson said the Kremlin's discontent over such a ban began two years ago before the next BRICS summit.
"Determined to disrupt the summit, Putin's aides threatened South African President Siril Ramaphosa that any attempt to detain Putin during the summit would be seen as an act of war," he added.
But, Forbes wrote, in a sense, the Russian dictator is already imprisoned.
"From the ban on Russian planes flying through European and North American airspace to the threat of being handcuffed and extradited by more than half of the world's countries - those that have joined the ISS - Putin's world and his freedom of movement are shrinking," the publication emphasized.
Dickinson also added:
"Putin today is very careful wherever he goes."
The scholar said that unless countries provide the Russian president with a guarantee against arrest, he "does not travel to countries that are members of the ICC."
"He also does not seem eager to embark on long journeys that might put him at risk of unplanned stops in ISS member countries," Dickinson noted.
Forbes summarized that any airplane accident that would force Putin's plane to land in Brussels, London, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo or Sydney could result in him being forced to travel to The Hague - "a one-way trip that could permanently distance him from Moscow and the power cabinets in the Kremlin."
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