The site in eastern Ukraine where the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner fell after the Russian separatist forces shot it down has now been visited by the team of international investigators. As a result, the story is rapidly disappearing from the news. See, the Russians fomented an armed uprising by Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Then the Russians armed the separatists with all sorts of advanced weaponry. Then Putin massed his armed forces on the Russian side of the border in an attempt to intimidate the Ukrainian government into inaction as happened with the case of Crimea. When the Ukrainian government in Kiev sent its forces to oust the Russian separatists from their strongholds in the east, Putin did not send the Russian army to oppose the effort, but he did send "advisors" and "volunteers" to fight with the separatists. Putin, however, was restrained from a full scale invasion of Ukraine because he is not sure how the rest of Europe would react to such a blatant bit of aggression. Instead, Putin had his forces give anti-aircraft missiles to the separatists who commenced blowing all manner of aircraft out of the sky. Thousands have been killed in the fighting. Hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. And all of this happened because Vladimir Putin wants to rule over a bigger Russia; he wants part or all of Ukraine.
When the Malaysian plane was shot down, the media (and the US government) quickly shifted the focus to having a full "investigation" of the crash site. Just think how many times president Obama spoke about the need for that investigation. America has irrefutable proof of the type of missile used to shoot down the plane and we know exactly from where it was launched. There is no mystery about this at all. But in order to distract the world from the real catastrophe of an imperialist Russia trying to rebuild an empire ruled from the Kremlin, Obama and the others put the focus on the investigation rather than on what was actually happening.
Okay, so the investigators have gotten to the site. We have heard all the details about the effort to get them there and the eventual success in their having access. So? What have we learned? NOTHING. What more are we likely to learn? NOTHING. All that will happen is that the remains of the victims will be recovered where possible. That is an effort worth undertaking, but it is hardly important for the future of this part of the world.
When is the world going to exact a price from Russia for what it did? The Russians need to understand that they cannot get away with behavior like this. But nothing happens and nothing will happen. All the outrage that came from the murder of 300 innocent people on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was focused on a meaningless investigation. And no one seems to care.
When the Malaysian plane was shot down, the media (and the US government) quickly shifted the focus to having a full "investigation" of the crash site. Just think how many times president Obama spoke about the need for that investigation. America has irrefutable proof of the type of missile used to shoot down the plane and we know exactly from where it was launched. There is no mystery about this at all. But in order to distract the world from the real catastrophe of an imperialist Russia trying to rebuild an empire ruled from the Kremlin, Obama and the others put the focus on the investigation rather than on what was actually happening.
Okay, so the investigators have gotten to the site. We have heard all the details about the effort to get them there and the eventual success in their having access. So? What have we learned? NOTHING. What more are we likely to learn? NOTHING. All that will happen is that the remains of the victims will be recovered where possible. That is an effort worth undertaking, but it is hardly important for the future of this part of the world.
When is the world going to exact a price from Russia for what it did? The Russians need to understand that they cannot get away with behavior like this. But nothing happens and nothing will happen. All the outrage that came from the murder of 300 innocent people on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was focused on a meaningless investigation. And no one seems to care.
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