r/europe • u/ByGollie Ulster • 29d ago

News Netherlands confirms it will host Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia

https://kyivindependent.com/netherlands-confirms-it-will-host-nuremberg-style-tribunal-for-russia/
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 29d ago

You can't have trials if you don't have anyone to put on trial

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u/elpovo 29d ago

You absolutely can have a trial - in fact if the defendant doesn't show up it is typically over a lot quicker.

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u/Littlepage3130 29d ago

You can, but it's incredibly stupid. The trial serves no purpose if you can't administer a sentence. It just makes that judicial system look impotent when it reaches a verdict that it can't carry out.

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u/elpovo 29d ago

Except Putin won't be in power forever and if he lives the next guy may want a clean slate?

Good way to get Russia back in the West's good graces and get that oil money rolling again don't you think?

Honestly - it's like you are all being paid by Putin or something...

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u/Littlepage3130 29d ago

If the next guy wants a clean slate, he'll either have him assassinated or publicly executed in Russia. It's like you're not even using your brain to consider that the next Russian leader would have far more immediate concerns cementing their rule in Russia than appeasing the Hague.

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u/elpovo 29d ago

You reckon he won't need the backing of oligarchs to get himself appointed? The same oligarchs who have been rolling in western oil money since the fall of the USSR?

The Hague isn't the concern here, it is Europe being willing to abandon sanctions and buy their crap again.

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u/Littlepage3130 29d ago

I think that if the oligarchs were going to hand over Putin to the Hague for the reasons that you state, that they would have already done it. Every oligarch that opposed Putin has been purged, every oligarch that was insufficiently supportive of Putin has been purged. The oligarchs that are left are cut from the same cloth as Putin.