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”.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    36 minutes ago

    Oh, well if you pinky promise. /s

    I think the most interesting thing here is the trajectory of Russian demands. They’ve really moved closer and closer to an actually reasonable ask over the past few months, and it makes me think they know exactly when they’re going to run out of stuff.

  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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    37 minutes 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.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I’d never show Putin what men like him believe respect to be. It’s never short of complete submission.

  • Llamatron@lemmy.world
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    8 hours 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.

  • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    8 hours 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!”

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      37 minutes 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.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

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

    His words are worthless.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, as long as the world regularly respectfully cedes land, resources and slaves then russia won’t go to war at all with anybody.