Just replace the word Ukraine with Iraq,.... Russia with the United States, Russian with American, and Putin with Bush, and ask if the U.S. government would have recognized the legitimacy of any ‘special’ tribunal established to bring accountability for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
No American ever faced an indictment before a world court for the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan or the firebombing of Tokyo or the carpet bombing of Dresden. ....Stalin was never hauled before a tribunal to answer for his voluminous mass atrocities...... This is also why no U.S. officials have ever been prosecuted for decades of war crimes across the globe, from Korea to Vietnam to Central America to Iraq and beyond.......and Putin won’t be either.