"Apparently, the enemy is striving to improve its negotiating positions in the future," Putin said Monday. "But what kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately strike at civilians, at civilian infrastructure?"
Bruh
Pot, kettle, black
My guess is that Ukraine is not inentionally targeting civilians, which is a significant difference.
A very significant difference.... vast majority of Ukraine's over-the-border strikes have exclusively been military camps, infrastructure, and usually energy/export infrastructure that Russia uses for oil revenues. The right way to conduct a war.
If they were, we wouldn’t believe it. That’s the double-edged sword of lying constantly.
What we need is a frying pan.
Who's gonna bring the fire?
Also, obligatory
I'm surprised he's publicly acknowledging this improves Ukraine's negotiating position. He seems so paranoid about it that he thinks he needs to get ahead of Russians pressuring for peace by portraying Ukrainian soldiers as monsters.
The Ministry of Truth has spoken.
Double-think
Bruh indeed. If Ukrainians were half as bad as Russians have been in their strikes, Belgorad and Kursk would be flattened rubble, St. Petersburg would be full of husks of buildings and there wouldn't be a single intact hospital within the city limits of Moscow. But yeah, please go on how Ukraine is attacking civilians.
Russia is the Katie Ledecky of gaslighting.
He speaks truth 🤣😄!
Putin - "Oh no the consequences of my own actions!"
It's cute that you think Putin is feeling any of these consequences himself.
Who is downvoting you??? I used to think it was a bot going around downvoting people, but now I think it's one asshole guy just going around Lemmy, and downvoting EVERYTHING.
Or maybe it's two guys. The two muppets in the balcony at the muppet show who hate everything.
Russian astroturfers. I would have hoped lemmy was too small for them to care but they are here. They are doing a horrible job and Putin should arrest all of them. They need bodies for the border anyway.
If they were doing a good job, then Russia coverage would be more pro-Russia wouldn’t it? They can always get women to operate the troll farms, gotta feed more meat into the grinder at the front!
They have to be discreet. If they're too obvious they'll get called out and their efforts will backfire.
I don't think Statler and Waldorf hate everything, they're just old AF and see everything as an absurd waste of time.
I didn't downvote them, but I understand why. It's a meme reply brought over from Reddit and dropped everywhere, which adds nothing of value.
The dildo of consequences sometimes arrives covered with fragments of broken glass
Honestly Russia is getting off easy in this case, if Ukrainian invaders had the same barbaric attitude the Russians had moving into Eastern Ukraine, we'd be seeing a lot of fucking warcrimes, rapes and looting as the army moved through. It's possible there are isolated incidents of that, but on the whole I've not heard any reports, where in summer 2022 it was a weekly fucking thing for video to pop up of Russians doing just that.
With cat piss for lube.
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