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Linking to George Galloway is like licking the floor around the toilet and the fact that a Freeper would link to the unreconstructed supporter of Josef Stalin makes me literally sick. My grandfather belongs to an ethnic group that is nearly extinct, except a few in diaspora around the Hudson and Thames (Connecticut, not England) river valleys, because after WWII, Belgrade anaihilated the entire population. You don’t hear about the genocide because when a genocide is successful, there’s no-one left to complain.

Neither Pres. Bush nor Europe ever argued that any state could declare its independence any time it wanted to.
I actually believe that Crimea’s secession from Ukraine was justifiable, and perhaps even Donetsk’s and Luhansk’s. The neo-Soviets make a mockery of the cause of self-determination, however, when they demand the right to seize Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv. And make no mistake: had the tanks rolling into Kiev not been thwarted, Russia would today be insisting that the 99% of the whole of Ukraine wants desperately to be re-united with the Stalinist forces who murdered 20 million of their parents, grandparents, uncle, grand-uncles, aunts and grand-aunts.

Crimea was never part of Ukraine until Kruschev redrew the lines to water down the Ukrainian majority of Ukraine with Russians. The Donbas was largely unsettled until Russian miners migrated into the area. But the notion that anyone else in Ukraine could ever want to live under Russia... well, you have to be wholly under the sway of the propaganda of Josef Stalin and his minions at the New York Times to believe that.