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Originally Posted by finnbow
Similar to Georgia in 2008, using the excuse of protecting Russian-speakers. I cannot ascribe benign happenstance to that kleptocratic little weasel, Putin.
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Yeah, but without the Maidan coup, there would have been no separatist movement for Russia to support as happened with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so no pretext for intervention.
(No fair saying that that little weasel Putin don't need no stinkin' pretext. Weasels always need a pretext.)
John