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.
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.
It’s why everyone stopped making agreements with Russia. They have no obligation to hold to the agreements, their word is worth nothing.