The painstaking, Dutch-led international investigation into the deaths of nearly 300 souls aboard Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight has concluded, and the report clearly points the finger at Russia. Such a monstrous crime ought to have been enough to convince the West to re-examine its approach to the Russia problem. Yet the West seems all too often to be trapped by its own ideas about the inevitability, if not desirability, of at least partial engagement with Putin’s regime. That regime, meanwhile, seems to respond to every Western offer of engagement with a fresh round of killings.A Russian attack on a UN …read more
Source: The American Interest
