Britain backs Nuremberg-style trials of Russia despite Trump opposition

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/10/britain-backs-nuremberg-style-russia-trial-trump-opposition/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Britain is backing plans for a Nuremberg-style trial of Vladimir Putin in the face of opposition from Donald Trump.

    The UK will support proposals at the Council of Europe next month calling for Russians to be prosecuted for “crimes of aggression” during the invasion of Ukraine.

    The idea would involve setting up a military tribunal, modelled on the Nazi trials after the Second World War, to prosecute Russian leaders and generals for war crimes.

    Some lawyers, including Sir Keir Starmer’s long-time friend Philippe Sands, have suggested the ad hoc court should be established specifically to deal with crimes of aggression, which are defined by the United Nations as “invasion or attack by the armed forces of a state on the territory of another state, or any military occupation”.

    Some Western countries, including the UK, have said that Russians should be tried on those grounds for the political decision to invade, not only for war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil once the war began.

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague cannot examine the “crime of aggression”, and is not recognised by either Russia or the US.

    The plan for a new court to examine crimes of aggression was first suggested in 2022. It was backed by the Ukrainian government and Joe Biden’s administration, which sent funding and American prosecutors to help set it up.

    However, Donald Trump withdrew all US involvement in the plan after his inauguration in January, as part of his strategy to be more conciliatory towards Moscow.

    The president has refused to refer to the war in Ukraine as an “invasion” by Russia, and hopes to act as a peace broker between Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.

    **Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/10/britain-backs-nuremberg-style-russia-trial-trump-opposition/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/10/britain-backs-nuremberg-style-russia-trial-trump-opposition/)

  2. Trump’s a convicted felon, I don’t trust any opinions of his regarding justice

  3. Ehm – that is what the ICC (International Criminal Court) is for actually. It was basically established because UN nations wanted an institution that deals with this on proper legal grounds and doesnt require ‘to win a war’.

  4. Of course Agent Orange is defending Putler and his murderous scum. Fucking traitor.

  6. How about helping Ukraine to win the war first?

  7. It’s only because he’s scared he’ll face the same treatment.

  8. Trump should be brought up on charges there too. He is Putin’s puppet.

  9. I back them for Russia, and I will back them for the US if we can take our country back. Fuck Trump.

  12. ah, the legendary ICC which small actors like the US, Russia and China passively ignore or actively threaten. …

  13. Nuremberg-style? So exonerate most of them, immediately pardon most of those convicted, and then let them go back to running the country for another generation?

  14. Who gives a shit what Mandarin Mussolini says? In a fair world, he’d be on trial, too. That fat orange bastard can fuck right off.

  15. Is this another empty action, or will they have the ability to actually lock anyone up?

  17. Why does Donald’s opinion factor in at all here? He’s not the king of the world.

  18. America has never acknowledged the ICC to begin with so who gives a fuck what they think. They can isolate like the good little morons they are while their parasite class siphons any value left for the middle class.

  19. Trump can be tried and receive the same punishment there too among the other criminals.

    May law and justice prevail.

  20. At this point, from amongst our “allies”, I would listen to Trump roughly as much as I would listen to Orban.

  22. How is this possible unless they completely crush Russia and capture Moscow ?

  24. If they had a modicum of integrity, human decency, and respect for justice, they would also support such trials of Israel… and the US.

  26. While I support the idea of this, I didn’t know how you actually accomplish this without triggering WW3. We could do the Nuremberg trials because we had fully defeated Germany and completely occupied it. That’s not the case with Russia.

  29. Nuremberg trails should never have ended and make a world tour instead.

  30. Hopefully we get to witness Nuremberg style trials of Donald and all his accomplices soon too.

  31. Did anyone really need informing of Trump’s position before reading it?

    If there was a motion on the table to call Putin “not the nicest guy ever”, Trump would still be against it.

    It’s a total coincidence though, I’m sure. He just happens to take all of these positions that help Russia by fluke. 107% coincidental.

  34. Pointless posturing. There will never be any trials for Russia because you’d have to defeat them first. Russia can only be changed from within, which will take so long that the current government will never face justice.

  35. Putting the carriage before the horses. First win against Russia.

  36. Is it just me who thinks that trials against Russia are perhaps a tiny-little-bit premature idea?

  37. Cool, now let’s do the same for the tRump administration.

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