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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 225 points 1 month ago (6 children)

"Apparently, the enemy is striving to improve its negotiating positions in the future," Putin said Monday. "But what kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately strike at civilians, at civilian infrastructure?"

Bruh

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] snooggums@midwest.social 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My guess is that Ukraine is not inentionally targeting civilians, which is a significant difference.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

A very significant difference.... vast majority of Ukraine's over-the-border strikes have exclusively been military camps, infrastructure, and usually energy/export infrastructure that Russia uses for oil revenues. The right way to conduct a war.

[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If they were, we wouldn’t believe it. That’s the double-edged sword of lying constantly.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What we need is a frying pan.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Who's gonna bring the fire?

Also, obligatory

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm surprised he's publicly acknowledging this improves Ukraine's negotiating position. He seems so paranoid about it that he thinks he needs to get ahead of Russians pressuring for peace by portraying Ukrainian soldiers as monsters.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Ministry of Truth has spoken.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Bruh indeed. If Ukrainians were half as bad as Russians have been in their strikes, Belgorad and Kursk would be flattened rubble, St. Petersburg would be full of husks of buildings and there wouldn't be a single intact hospital within the city limits of Moscow. But yeah, please go on how Ukraine is attacking civilians.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Russia is the Katie Ledecky of gaslighting.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He speaks truth 🤣😄!