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Share: The newly elected head of Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuominta...

"Not a dictator": the main opposition figure in Taiwan said that Putin was provoked into war with Ukraine

Share: The newly elected head of Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, Cheng Li-wen, said the West had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She also claims that the Russian leader is not a dictator, and that Russia itself "has been democratizing for many years," writes the Defense blog. "NATO has repeatedly violated its promise not to expand to the east, and this expansion to Russia's borders is the main reason for today's war.

If NATO had abandoned the idea of ​​accepting Ukraine into the alliance a long time ago, this problem would never have arisen," Li-wen said. She clarified that NATO's position on Ukraine is dictated by "propaganda" and accused Western countries of manipulating public opinion. According to Lee-wen, Putin could not single-handedly decide on the invasion of Ukraine. "Putin is not a dictator. He was elected democratically. Russia has been a democratic country for many years.

There is no perfect democracy in the world — even American democracy has many problems that need reform — but he was elected as a result of a democratic process," said the head of Taiwan's second largest party. She also emphasized that the real victims of the Russian-Ukrainian war are the soldiers of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, as well as civilians. "We do not want to become another Ukraine.