President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a “special military operation” to try to stop it.
In his yearly speech to the Valdai Discussion Club, being held in Sochi, Putin said Russia, the world’s largest country by area, had no need to take territory from Ukraine.
He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
Test that theory. Leave Ukraine and see how much longer the war continues.
Including Crimea
Yep, out of Ukraine.
“No no no…. That convoy wasn’t tanks, it was FARM EQUIPMENT!” -Putin.
“Well, it’s farm equipment….now”- Ukrainian Farmersdeleted by creator
Biden and the whole western world told him every day for at least a month not to do it and he said every day that he’s not going to do it.
Then he started the war in Ukraine.
Putin lies. Putin does nothing but lies.
It’s why everyone stopped making agreements with Russia. They have no obligation to hold to the agreements, their word is worth nothing.
…and how is that going, clown-shoes?
and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
Is the “West” in the room with you right now? No? Well you’re going to be in a world of shit if the “West” ever bothers to show up, huh?
And speaking of hegemonic power, remind me again who’s “traditional allies” are publicly & actively ghosting them?
Russia is going to have to start importing copium from North Korea soon.
BTW, Reuters, the word you’re so desperately trying to forget exists when you’re talking about Putin is lie. He lied. He’s a lying liar.
Is the “West” in the room with you right now?
I heard that “the west” caused him to stub his toe this morning too. And mismatched his socks in the dryer.
The West and the Woke living rent free in dictator, and tyrannical supporter’s dreams.
Cool story, blyat.
That one took me a sec.
What is it?
“There is no war in Ba Sing Se” avatar the last airbender reference
Russian officials have literally said they’re going to commit Ukrainian genocide and go after Poland next but sure they’re the victim /s
Run that through the good old projection filter real quick…
… Ah, shit.
Wake up honey new hexbear talking points just dropped
You can put “Putin lies” in the title, Reuters. He isn’t going to sue you.
Reuters is literally owned by Russian gov.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters
You should update Wikipedia, they think it’s owned by the Thompson family, a Canadian media conglomerate.
This “article” is three sentences with line breaks so they look like paragraphs.
This is what passes for journalism these days.
I’m guessing that Reuters request for an interview was turned down. Sometimes all you need is three lines. If this was a CNN article or Fox News it would be 10 paragraphs of saying nothing but recapping Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while also adding this in. I find it to be a fine article to point out how Putin is interacting with his international cohorts. It’s to the point and says what needs to be said
Can we collectively start down voting all the headlines that boil down to “world leader makes meaningless propaganda statement”
The admins would remove it as an opinion piece if a reporter made such a claim but it’s somehow different if they hold office?
If a reporter had millions of soldiers, thousands of nuclear weapons, a submarine fleet, the world’s largest standing tank deployment… at their beck and call, to enforce their every whim, then yes the mad reporters ravings would be newsworthy.
I didn’t rape you, I had sex with you to prevent you from whoring yourself!!!
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“We’re giving them rest and peace by putting them in graves!”
Hexbear strategy. Patently false, as is standard.
