Vladimir Putin Can Stop This War
Downing of Malaysia Jet Is a Call to End Ukraine Conflict
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JULY 17, 2014
Growing casualties on the ground, a major escalation of American sanctions against Russia, a military plane shot down and now the appalling destruction of a Malaysian jetliner with 298 people on board, destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. The Ukrainian conflict has gone on far too long, and it has become far too dangerous.
There is one man who can stop it — President Vladimir Putin of Russia, by telling the Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to end their insurgency and by stopping the flow of money and heavy weaponry to those groups. But for all his mollifying words and gestures, Mr. Putin has only continued to stoke the flames by failing to shut down those pipelines, failing to support a cease-fire and avoiding serious, internationally mediated negotiations.
President Obama was fully justified in announcing tough new sanctions; the European Union imposed its own less-stringent measures.
It may take a while to fully sort out exactly who is responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, which Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said was “blown out of the sky.” American officials said the plane was hit by a Russian-made missile. The pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have denied that they were responsible.
However it happened, it is the worst catastrophe of an increasingly costly and brutal conflict that could and should have ended long ago. If Mr. Putin wanted to make a political point about Russian interests, he made it weeks ago. His sole, cynical interest now is apparently to hurt and punish Ukraine. Mr. Putin and those who support him seem incapable of accepting that their model of government, with all its cronyism, corruption and bullying, is not the one many former Soviet subjects want. [So they want US cronyism, corruption and bullying? LOL]
The Russian leaders prefer not to accept that the C.I.A.*did not engineer the preference of many Ukrainians for what they see in the West. They prefer to proclaim that Russia is the victim of American designs and manipulation — a claim Mr. Putin invoked again in response to the sanctions.
The new sanctions from Washington, which target some of Russia’s largest energy companies and banks and more of its senior officials, are not likely to change Mr. Putin’s mind. But they, along with lesser but still significant European sanctions, should make clear to him that the West will not back down. [The extra-national orgs gang is with you on this?]
And if that fails, how can the innocent victims in the Malaysian jetliner not impress on him that this useless contest must be ended now? [How low can NYT go?]
SOURCE - New York Times - here.
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COMMENT
*Covert United States foreign regime change actions
1949..........Syrian.coup.d'état
1953..........Iranian.coup.d'état
1954..........Guatemalan.coup.d'état
1959..........Tibetan.uprising
1961..........Cuba,.Bay.of.Pigs.Invasion
1963..........South.Vietnamese.coup
1964..........Brazilian.coup.d'état
1973..........Chilean.coup.d'état
1976..........Argentine.coup.d'état
1979–89....Afghanistan,.Operation.Cyclone
1980..........Turkish.coup.d'état
1981–87....Nicaragua,.Contras
2011–........Syrian.uprising
[wikipedia]
So now it's up to Putin to solve what they've created?
And the downing of the jet justifies their sanctions?
No mention is made of their real agenda.
Biden gets to yap some more.
And let's pretend it's THE WEST now; not US corporate & strategic agenda that's the driving force in this grab for Ukraine.
The extra-national gang that the US has formed is a great tool; US gets to duck and weave (on a 'my needy European posse' basis) to leverage what Corporate America (& US military strategy) wants -- without having to squarely face off anybody one-on-one or take responsibility (they're hiding behind the skirts of EU, NATO, UN etc).
It's pretty low blaming Russia for what's going on there in Ukraine, and particularly low to try to tarnish the Russians over that downed Malaysian flight.
How about the US pulls out of everywhere it's not wanted around the world?
Naaaah, no chance of that.
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