[logic101.net]

How did the pro-Russian side get labeled as “separatist”? They don't want their own nation, they don't even want the nation they have. They want to join a hostile nation that is on their borders. Would not “traitor” be a more apt label?

[varmintman]

They want to join a hostile nation that is on their borders. Would not “traitor” be a more apt label?

Your question indicates that you don't really grasp the situation.

There were two offers of financial aid sitting in front of the Ukraine several months ago, a very good offer from Russia, and a very bad offer from the IMF. Yanukovich, the legitimate and elected president of the Ukraine, sensibly took the Russian offer, and Soros and a bunch of Soros-related organizations backed by our own rogue/feral state department pounced, and some of the Nazis in those organizations killed dozens of their own people in a false-flag op and seized power.

Not supporting that stupid **** does not make anybody a "traitor(TM)".

[1rudeboy]

Would not “traitor” be a more apt label?

Depends. Some use "oppressed Russian minority," and yammer about George Soros.