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Halya Coynash: Russia’s aggression poses dangers beyond Ukraine’s borders
Victims of any military action are inevitable, and Russia’s pretense that it is bringing troops into another sovereign country “to protect Russian nationals” should convince nobody. Among the planned victims are the indigenous Crimean Tatars who in just over two months will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of their deportation as a people from their native land. In May 1944, it was Josef Stalin who used defamation and propaganda to try to justify a terrible crime. In March, it is Vladimir Putin.