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”.
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.
What a hilariously worthless statement given how many of his promises Putin has ever kept: Zero.
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.
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.
And ‘hybrid warfare’ anchor dragging across international telecom cables, etc, etc.
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?
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.
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
“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!”
then be respectable and hold legitimate elections you Nazi piece of shit.
Putin is on the back foot.
This isn’t the first story that had me feeling the same. He’s not flat out desperate yet, but the fall is inevitable.
Just like he promised after stealing the Crimea in 2014?
As if Putler can be trusted.
