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.
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.
Peace is not war. As much as you should rightfully hate Putin for overstepping his boundaries and bullying Ukraine, he did not fucking start the war. Ukraine did. All the deaths, the destruction, everything? Ukraine's fault for not allowing a peaceful operation to happen that would have been eventually peacefully and justly resolved without the mass murder of innocents, including young children.
Sick of revisionist history, and the audacity of recent revisionist history. Putin is the bad guy here. Make no mistake. Do not think I am pro-Russia, pro-Putin here. But not a single bullet was fired, not a single person died before Ukraine decided to defend itself the only way a hateful, war-mongering, blood-thirsty country can.
If gang breaks into your home, starts destroying your things, and manhandling your family, you just gonna sit there and let them do it because it would be "eventually peacefully and justly resolved"?
If your answer isn't "no", then you're a liar. You'd defend your home and your family, because that's the right thing to do...
It wouldn't be "hateful", "war-mongering", or "blood-thirsty" it'd be heroic.
So how can you sit there and say to us that you expect the whole of Ukraine to just allow that to happen to themselves??
To watch this band of 100,000 men take everything away from them - their culture, their homes, their lives - and do jack shit about it?!
The war didn't start with a bullet, it started when Putin's army marched into Ukrainian soil to claim it as their own.
You sound like the type of person who blames the victim of a bully when they inevitably lash out. If you aren't, you're doing a bad job of proving it.
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
I don’t get it why people still even gives a damn to what he has to say. He’s a war criminal and he DID start a war, no matter how much him and his bots blame NATO.
He deserves to be arrested together with his supporters.
so we did pushed your tanks over the border? Did you take your medicine today Vlad?
Does telling a lie again and again really works that well in Russia?
Oct 5 (Reuters) - 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.
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Up is down, grass is blue, the sky is green. Bla bla bla. It's high time we just started treating anything Putin says as the equivalent of farts in a paper bag.
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.
I'm a little confused, how does one separate actions towards global order from imperial actions? Aren't imperial actions typically in relation to attempting to establish or maintain a nation's position in, or as, the global order? In a similar vein, does anyone believe the West is a genuine, political entity that is altogether united, rather than a basic academic concept to help differentiate some elements of the world from others?
Last I looked around, the West is about as much of a real political entity that's wholly united about as much as the East is, which is to say, it isn't.