Vladimir Putin finally admits Ukraine conflict is about returning land to Russia

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Vladimir Putin has claimed that it has become his responsibility to take back and strengthen Ukraine as he appeared to finally admit that the war was about returning land to Russia.

The Russian President attended a meeting with entrepreneurs ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in the capital Moscow, in which he compared himself to Peter the Great, the 18th-century Russian monarch, who launched a war on Sweden.Putin said: "Peter the Great led the Northern War for 21 years.

It would seem that he fought with Sweden, and captured land… but he didn't conquer it, he returned it."Well, it seems it has also now fallen to us to take back and strengthen land and if we take these basic values as fundamental to our existence, we will prevail in solving the issues we are facing."The Mirror reports that up until this point, Putin and his followers have cited everything from a supposed "threat" posed by NATO to the "neo-Nazis" he claimed have overrun Ukraine, as reasons for his unprovoked and bloody invasion of Russia's neighbours.

But today, after more than 100 days of war, Putin has openly claimed that he is "returning" land to Russia.Peter the Great was the early 18th-century Russian czar and many think his expansionist policies and military reforms helped Russia become the powerful country it is today.Putin often celebrates Peter for boldly seizing territory and power for Russia, saying he laid the groundwork for what would become a geopolitical powerhouse.He went on to say the European Union is a "colony" of the United States and that no nation could both be sovereign and a colony.The brute then said that even an organisation as historical as the EU "has no chance of surviving in such a tough geopolitical