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Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that Ukraine “indeed” witnessed a coup d’etat in 2014 after the country saw a major change in the government in 2014. On Saturday, a Twitter user shared an article by Prof.John J. Mearsheimer, titled “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault”. In the tweet, the Twitter user quoted one of the excerpts from the article in which Mearsheimer asserted that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was right to call the illegal overthrow of a democratically elected, pro-Russian President a “coup”. The American political scientist made these assertions back in 2014 when Russia decided to...