The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference. “It’s not up to us.” Ukraine asked Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends the Oct. 1 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. The request, in a statement from Ukraine’s Mexican embassy dated Aug. 7, pointed to an arrest warrant issued by the U.N.'s International Criminal Court (ICC).

  • Skua
    56•3 months ago

    It’ll be funny as hell if it turns out that this is a ploy to get him to actually visit and they arrest him anyway

    • @RakonatEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      Sadly Mexico isn’t part of NATO or has any real care for Ukraine.

  • @[email protected]
    28•3 months ago

    Pansies.

    What do you expect from a country that can’t even govern itself though?

    Should have requested the Cartels do something about it.

    • Buelldozer
      26•3 months ago

      Should have requested the Cartels do something about it.

      The United States could simply offer a 12 month amnesty to any Cartel who manages to make Putin appear, alive, at The Hague. The value of that would easily exceed a Billion dollars and be highly motivational.

    • @[email protected]
      5•3 months ago

      Too bad he hasn’t seemed to piss off China. I bet with all those precursor connections they would have enough influence to get them to destroy the meeting place.

      • Transporter Room 3
        11•3 months ago

        Ah yes, the old “your government/politician does bad thing therefore you cannot criticize other bad thing” argument. So eloquent, so convincing. So strong.

        I could live to be a thousand, and I’ll still be seeing small-minded people make the same argument.

  • Lemminary
    25•3 months ago

    Told ya’ll, zero chance we’d do it. Doesn’t matter what international agreement we signed, it’s not worth the risk. Sorry for signing that and not following through but asking us to arrest a head of state of a major superpower is too much.

      • Lemminary
        5•3 months ago

        We try to stay neutral with all countries and AMLO has taken it to heart. We know he’s not coming but the government is still doing it to be polite, avoid confrontation, and secure future relations, afaik. It’s putting ourselves first. But honestly, he shouldn’t have been invited in the first place. Fuck Putin. I hope Sheinbaum takes a more decisive stance and does the right thing but who knows.

    • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
      10•3 months ago

      I don’t think anyone’s surprised. I do wonder though, if Putin has the guts to show up even with this assurance.

      • Buelldozer
        5•3 months ago

        …if Putin has the guts to show up even with this assurance.

        Not a chance. Someone(s) could easily make one, or all, of the Cartels an offer they couldn’t refuse to either make him disappear or make him disappear from Mexico and magically reappear at The Hague.

      • Lemminary
        2•3 months ago

        That’s what I thought! And yet there were surprises to be had in some other comments section arguing that because Mexico signed an extradition agreement, we’d be forced to follow through somehow.

    • @RestrictedAccount
      1•3 months ago

      Probably something to do with Leon Trotsky

      In Mexico City:

      On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramón Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon. The operation was known within the NKVD as “Operation Utka” (Operation Duck).

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        Damn - my mind was going with an elaborate axe forged from ice – before it finally realized we might have meant climbing equipment.

    • @[email protected]
      -3•3 months ago

      Did you seriously just call a third world gas station a super power? Just because they claim to have Soviet nukes that still work doesn’t make them relevant.

      • Lemminary
        0•3 months ago

        Uhh… yes? I can’t find a single source that doesn’t list Russia as one of the top 5 most powerful countries.

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    • SeaJ
      40•3 months ago

      They are signatories of the ICC. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin so any signatory nations are supposed to attempt to apprehend him.

      • Transporter Room 3
        6•3 months ago

        Like… I understand the reasoning they won’t… But like…

        Don’t be surprised if your friends stop inviting you to parties when you go back on your word, and invite fascist dictators to your own parties…

    • @[email protected]English
      11•3 months ago

      My knee-jerk reaction was to say ‘because they are a signatory to the Rome Statute’, but on further reading discovered that all requests from the ICC for a nation’s cooperation are described as ‘may’, not ‘shall’ be agreed to, and worse, that if a nation refuses the matter will get forwarded to the UN Assembly and inevitably to the UN Security Council (Article 87-7). This essentially means Russia can veto, so in reality the don’t have to or at least would only worry about sanctions.

      My hope is they are loudly refusing Ukraine’s request now as bait.

      • @RakonatEnglish
        -1•3 months ago

        Im hoping US will use a fleet of Reaper drones to harass Putin’s plane just like Russian fighters do to drones in international airspace, forcing it to detour and land on a conveniently nearby US Carrier beforing steaming straight for the Hague as his plane is disassembled down to nuts and bolts before being shipped piecemeal back to Moscow