Lol, what? Are we still playing in this russian game “there is no war in Ukraine” that some of Western media have gladly played along with Russia for almost 10 years?
Also, paywall
Also. Who cares except families of those who died? More than 200 citizens of European countries died and everyone seemed ok with it. Did something changed? Are their lives now more worthy than “good” relationships with Russia?
For a moment, the tragedy seemed like it might galvanise global action to end the then-nascent war in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians thought it would shock the world into helping. Barack Obama, then America’s president, said it would “be a wake-up call for Europe and the world that there are consequences to an escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine”.
What followed, however, were limp sanctions, a poisoned peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia in early 2015, and a return, largely, to business as usual between Russia and Europe. Germany launched Nord Stream 2, a new gas pipeline, a year after the crash; football fans descended on Moscow for the World Cup in 2018. Only when Vladimir Putin openly invaded Ukraine in 2022 did the world truly wake up. And yet, as the open war drags into its third year, some are falling asleep again, forgetting what is at stake in the sunflower fields of eastern Ukraine.
People supported by the Kremlin shot it down. Everybody knows that.
What can be done? Nothing!
Malaysia air did not have a good year in 2014,tragic that.
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>presage the war in Ukraine
Lol, what? Are we still playing in this russian game “there is no war in Ukraine” that some of Western media have gladly played along with Russia for almost 10 years?
Also, paywall
Also. Who cares except families of those who died? More than 200 citizens of European countries died and everyone seemed ok with it. Did something changed? Are their lives now more worthy than “good” relationships with Russia?
For a moment, the tragedy seemed like it might galvanise global action to end the then-nascent war in Ukraine. Many Ukrainians thought it would shock the world into helping. Barack Obama, then America’s president, said it would “be a wake-up call for Europe and the world that there are consequences to an escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine”.
What followed, however, were limp sanctions, a poisoned peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia in early 2015, and a return, largely, to business as usual between Russia and Europe. Germany launched Nord Stream 2, a new gas pipeline, a year after the crash; football fans descended on Moscow for the World Cup in 2018. Only when Vladimir Putin openly invaded Ukraine in 2022 did the world truly wake up. And yet, as the open war drags into its third year, some are falling asleep again, forgetting what is at stake in the sunflower fields of eastern Ukraine.
People supported by the Kremlin shot it down. Everybody knows that.
What can be done? Nothing!
Malaysia air did not have a good year in 2014,tragic that.