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.
Like a revamped Pinky and The Brain?
Yes, but with two pinkies and no brain.
That is an insult to pinkie and you know it. Pinkie may have been dumb but had a heart of gold.
I maintain that Pinky was the Genius, and Brain was insane. Pinky is the one that a) tells Brain that he doesn’t think the idea will work, and b) later in the episode ends up sabotaging the plan in such a way that Brain never catches on that it was intentional.