Using the term thug indiscriminately ignores the reality of a people that just want to be left alone.
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Another reality that ought not to be ignored is that Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the eastern regions opposed the Obama-backed Junta that seized power in Kiev.
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How do we know this without a free and fair election in those territories?
How do we know this without a free and fair election in those territories?....So what? We haven’t had one of those for almost seven years?