Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said there will be no more wars after Ukraine if Russia is treated with respect - and claims that Moscow is planning to attack European countries are “nonsense”.

  • Llamatron@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Yeah right. And meanwhile he’ll still be running the bot farms, relentless disinformation campaigns and killing people he doesn’t like on foreign soil.

    Respect is earned.

    • chloroken@lemmy.ml
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      11 days ago

      We’re talking about Putin here, not the US.

      Or did you forget that we’re literally sponsoring a genocide and bombing fisherman as you type this?

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      This isn’t the first story that had me feeling the same. He’s not flat out desperate yet, but the fall is inevitable.

  • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    “I swear, this is our last imperialist incursion into another sovereignty if you respect us by giving us the land we encroached upon and other economic rewards for having done it. Pinky swear!”

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    On 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia.

    This aged like fine milk.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    What about “special military operations” which is what Putin was calling his invasion of Ukraine?

    His words are worthless.

  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    No more wars? But Ukraine isn’t even a war. It’s a special military operation. He needs to promise no more of those.

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    13 days ago

    I’ll take this into consideration if you withdraw to your own borders in the current war your started…

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    12 days ago

    But, Maldova, Poland, Estonia, <…and more> are really already part of Russia if you think about it. And Russia needs to protect it’s borders, so if you have a border, abutting Russia, you’re really already part of Russia. Mirroring the circular logic justification for Israeli settlements.