President Vladimir Putin always relished his global outings, burnishing his image as one of the big guns running the world but with the International Criminal Court's war crimes charges against him, Putin's world just got smaller.
Basking in international focus he could thumb his nose at the world, or manipulate its leaders, in person, a perk if you will, of his stubborn, decades-long grip on power.
Putin faces a dilemma now, if he shows up in Delhi for this year's G20 in September. India, like the USA, is not signed up to the ICC, but what will Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Putin is unlikely to leave his destiny to the roll of the dice in a foreign court, so his worldis smaller, even, than the ICC hold out nations. So regardless of Kremlin spin Putin's ego is dented.
His accomplices in some of his war crimes, Bosnian Serb military Commander General Ratko Mladic and its Serbian nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic, both tried to hide from justice. The lesson for Putin is you can run but you can't hide. Perhaps more salutatory, the lesson learned in Milosovic's case is unless you hold on to power, today's underlings could tomorrow become your jailors.
The ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan seems clear, no one is off limits, "definitely nobody should feel they can act and commit genocide or crimes against humanity or war crimes with impunity."
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