The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October.
“We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference.
How would he even get there? He’d probably have to fly south to Turkey then over northern Africa to get there, to make sure he didn’t fly over any country that might force his plane down, or land to refuel in any country that might not let him take off again.
fly over the Pacific, but probably not worth the risk, effort just to give a blessing nobody wants.