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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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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] doktorseven@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] hdnsmbt@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Ok, not a single bullet was fired before Ukraine decided to defend itself? From what?

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

World War 2 was started by France and Britain declaring war, Germany merely did a peaceful operation in Poland.

[–] Zithero@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"If I keep repeating the lie, then eventually someone will believe me" - Putin

[–] float@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

He might have convinced himself already. That doesn't change the facts though.

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

assertion

That's a really strange way to spell "blatant lie".