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Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.
These stories portray bounty hunters as thugs who are beyond the law.
Q: How does Betty Loren-Maltese propose to round up these young thugs?
Personally, I doubt that there was anything we could have done, given the thieves and thugs thrown up into leadership positions by the Soviet collapse, and the disintegration of anything that might have evolved into civil society.
The cynical spin: Now we're allied with vengeful, ethnic-separatist thugs.