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Somebody needs to give Putin a history lesson
CNN
David Andelman unpacks Putin's rambling speech that veered into a bizarre history lesson. The Russian President's recognition of territories in the Donbas region are a pretext to war -- but also an example of his crude manipulation of history to push his geopolitical policies.
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