The tragedy of Malaysia Airlines MH17 is the price we pay for the naiveté of the West concerning Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the soft response to his aggression against Ukraine and for the division, mostly of our own making, among allies. When we loose sight of our basic interests, our fundamental values in the urge to satisfy short-term popular demands, hoping for problems to go away, when we choose appeasement instead of determined action, if we just wait and look away, we sow the seeds of problems lot greater. Let’s face the facts: this tragedy would never have happened, had …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
