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.

Test that theory. Leave Ukraine and see how much longer the war continues.

“No no no…. That convoy wasn’t tanks, it was FARM EQUIPMENT!” -Putin.
“Well, it’s farm equipment….now”- Ukrainian Farmers

Biden and the whole western world told him every day for at least a month not to do it and he said every day that he's not going to do it.

Then he started the war in Ukraine.

Putin lies. Putin does nothing but lies.

..and how is that going, clown-shoes?

and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.

Is the "West" in the room with you right now? No? Well you're going to be in a world of shit if the "West" ever bothers to show up, huh?

And speaking of hegemonic power, remind me again who's "traditional allies" are publicly & actively ghosting them?

Russia is going to have to start importing copium from North Korea soon.

BTW, Reuters, the word you're so desperately trying to forget exists when you're talking about Putin is lie. He lied. He's a lying liar.

Russian officials have literally said they're going to commit Ukrainian genocide and go after Poland next but sure they're the victim /s

Cool story, blyat.

Run that through the good old projection filter real quick...

... Ah, shit.

Wake up honey new hexbear talking points just dropped

You can put "Putin lies" in the title, Reuters. He isn't going to sue you.

This "article" is three sentences with line breaks so they look like paragraphs.

This is what passes for journalism these days.

I didn't rape you, I had sex with you to prevent you from whoring yourself!!!!

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?

Hexbear strategy. Patently false, as is standard.

Pathetic little bitch.

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

I don’t get it why people still even gives a damn to what he has to say. He’s a war criminal and he DID start a war, no matter how much him and his bots blame NATO.

He deserves to be arrested together with his supporters.

so we did pushed your tanks over the border? Did you take your medicine today Vlad? Does telling a lie again and again really works that well in Russia?

Worlds biggest bull shitter spews more shit, news at 11 lol. Don't need more territory then I guess can give Crimea back.

Gaslighting

assertion

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

Yeah, everyone knows it was just a reverse psychology. /s

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Oct 5 (Reuters) - 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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Of course not. They started a special military operation. Ukraine started the war when they fought back!

Despicable piece of human excrement.

Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it

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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.

That lie is about the same level as kid caught with their fingers in the cookie jar. "No, I wasn't going to eat the cookie, I was saving it from you eating it in the future!".

Up is down, grass is blue, the sky is green. Bla bla bla. It's high time we just started treating anything Putin says as the equivalent of farts in a paper bag.

Uh huh. Last time I checked, peacekeeping didn't involve shooting at and bombing innocent civilians, or raping and pillaging towns.

Next thing he'll be wanting condolences for all the people he's had put down via "falling" out of buildings.

I’m usually all for inclusion in most chases, but I really think that the mentally handicap have no business in politics. Between this guy and trump… they need to be in padded rooms and medicated.

Picture the generic Russian nesting doll, except inside each layer of the head of state is his own most useful idiot

Poor Putin. No one believes you that all these hospitals, kindergardens and playgrounds were in the way to make peace in Ukraine.

I totally believe it. And I think that all the people who don't believe you, should accidentally fall out of windows or down the stairs.