Can you imagine the international uproar and US media outrage if those thugs were not pro-US?

Pro-US thugs are always presented as pro-democracy protesters, no matter what: "A lawmaker from the party of the ousted Ukrainian president was attacked Tuesday by a crowd in the Black Sea port of Odessa during campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26. The lawmaker, Nestor I. Shufrich, a deputy in the Party of Regions and a defender of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face."