He also told us he wasn’t invading Ukraine.

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.

Here he goes again with impossible requests. Nobody is going to respect Russia for a looong tine.

Just special military operations, obviously. Not wars. Wars are a bad thing.

And by “respect,” he mans capitulation and servility.

I’m surprised he didn’t demand thanks for the restraint Russia has exercised by not having defeated Ukraine yet.

then be respectable and hold legitimate elections you Nazi piece of shit.

Respect the criminal.

Just like he promised after stealing the Crimea in 2014?

Before the war, ordinary Russians were slowly getting fed up with Putin. As per the dictator’s playbook, Putin is stoking the base tribalism of the citizens to distract them from his government’s own corruption. The world respects Russia, it’s only that the world doesn’t respect him.

We did and you started wars. First end those wars and start acting more respectable.

When did Pootin’ become the evil Rodney Dangerfield?

In 2004 Putin said: We have settled all our border issues. What this amounts to is full and absolute recognition of and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty, not only as concerns its land borders, but also its sea borders. Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22661

Bully tactics. Why are mental children in power everywhere currently?

What a hilariously worthless statement given how many of his promises Putin has ever kept: Zero.

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.