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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    …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.

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      Is the "West" in the room with you right now?

      I heard that "the west" caused him to stub his toe this morning too. And mismatched his socks in the dryer.