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.

  • JackLSauce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      If a reporter had millions of soldiers, thousands of nuclear weapons, a submarine fleet, the world’s largest standing tank deployment… at their beck and call, to enforce their every whim, then yes the mad reporters ravings would be newsworthy.