War Criminals LLP

A Google search for ‘Putin should be tried as a war criminal’ brings up a few results. In the top five was a comment column on Al Jazeera, an article in the New Yorker, a reader’s letter in the Toronto Star and two articles on yahoo!news and the Independent both based on a statement from a Ukrainian political analyst. I admit this is not much of a survey, but I found it surprising nonetheless that no senior western politician had made the call. If they had, wouldn’t it have taken precedence over Al Jazeera and a reader’s letter in a Canadian newspaper? Of course, Putin now fully qualifies as a war criminal and if he feels he has a case to defend it can be made in a court, probably in The Hague. But that will never happen. And perhaps there are certain politicians in the West who would be reluctant to call Putin out in this way—the fickle finger of fate and all that.