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.

  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    The fuck are you on about?

    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.