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.
Launching a “special military operation” is starting a war. You can call it a “pacifist peace offering operation”, and it’s still starting a war.
What Puta calls his starting of the war is irrelevant.
Nobody expected him to say the truth, or am I mistaken?
Sure, but now it’s in print (or at least digitally published), so later on there’s a mountain of journalism, this bit included, that says that he denies any wrongdoing. Every bit of getting his doublespeak out to the public helps
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.
Was this supposed to be dark humor
According to his comment history that’s what he truly believes.
I never thought there would be such a thing as too much sarcasm. It bends reality and circles back on itself. Impressive.
I appreciate his integrity to not use /s but die to the social media mob like a real man.
Nah just look at his history. That’s not sarcasm.
I think I became dumber. This guy actually believes Putin didn’t invade a country and cause the murder of Ukrainian children with his troops in the first place. He wins first prize for the Russia Propaganda Delusions Awards.
Test that theory. Leave Ukraine and see how much longer the war continues.
Including Crimea
Yep, out of Ukraine.
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“No no no…. That convoy wasn’t tanks, it was FARM EQUIPMENT!” -Putin.
“Well, it’s farm equipment….now”- Ukrainian FarmersRun that through the good old projection filter real quick…
… Ah, shit.
Wake up honey new hexbear talking points just dropped
Cool story, blyat.
You can put “Putin lies” in the title, Reuters. He isn’t going to sue you.
Reuters is literally owned by Russian gov.
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
That one took me a sec.
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!”
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?
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.
“If I keep repeating the lie, then eventually someone will believe me” - Putin
Plenty of Christians do.
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?
