When a bear is cornered it becomes angrier and more unpredictable.
That is where Vladimir Putin’s Russia has found itself since a Malaysian airliner was shot down out of the sky near the Russian border on Thursday. The president’s dream of making Russia a respected global player again has run into trouble at its first stop in Ukraine. On the defensive on all fronts, Putin is cranking up, rather than toning down his impressive propaganda apparatus.
As evidence of Moscow’s deep complicity in the shooting down of the civilian jet piles up, it has become obvious that instead of using this horrific …read more
Source: canada.com
