{"id":53570,"date":"2022-11-25T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53570"},"modified":"2022-11-25T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:24","slug":"ukraine-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53570","title":{"rendered":"Put Putin on trial!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31120\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071518putin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin needs to be tried for war crimes against civilians in Ukraine &#8230; of that I am utterly certain.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian goon\/thug\/strongman\/despot\/tyrant has stooped to even lower lows than I thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>His military is now targeting heating infrastructure in Ukraine as the temperatures start to plummet to below-zero temperatures. Who suffers from such hideous attacks? Women, children, elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>Russian propagandists insist they are targeting military operations. Bullsh**! Their aim is to bring the civilian population to its knees. It&#8217;s the only target left, given that the Ukrainian military machine is making mincemeat on the battlefield of what once was considered an invincible Russian army.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is now turning his weaponry on civilians. Thus, he needs to stand trial. In absentia if need be.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of precedent for putting war criminals on trial in absentia. The International Court needs to step in &#8211;and step up &#8212; to do its job by holding this Russian despot accountable for his obvious crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin needs to be tried for war crimes against civilians in Ukraine &#8230; of that I am utterly certain. The Russian goon\/thug\/strongman\/despot\/tyrant has stooped to even lower lows than I thought possible. His military is now targeting heating infrastructure in Ukraine as the temperatures start to plummet to below-zero temperatures. Who suffers from such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put Putin on trial!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[7018,4050,9899,9903],"class_list":["post-53570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-war","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53571,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570\/revisions\/53571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}