But, Maldova, Poland, Estonia, <…and more> are really already past of Russia if you think about it. And Russia needs to protect it’s borders, so if you have a border, abutting Russia, you’re really already part of Russia. Mirroring the circular logic justification for Israeli settlements.

In 2004 Putin said: We have settled all our border issues. What this amounts to is full and absolute recognition of and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty, not only as concerns its land borders, but also its sea borders. Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22661

I believe him…

Liar says what

“I will not attack any countries after Austria Georgia and Poland Ukraine.” I think I’ve heard this song before.

No more wars? But Ukraine isn’t even a war. It’s a special military operation. He needs to promise no more of those.

Not trying to be funny, but I thought this was The Onion at first glance.

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.

Die already you murderous twat

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.

What a hilariously worthless statement given how many of his promises Putin has ever kept: Zero.

“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!”

Putin is on the back foot.