The downing of the Malaysian passenger plane is a dire lesson for the world: Vladimir Putin’s aggression can reach us.
He is responsible for the deaths of the Malaysian flight passengers but so are the rest of us.
We have been emboldening him for years by tip-toeing around his aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia. Our responses to his arrests of peaceful protestors, the victimization of journalists like the executed Anna Politkovskaya, were tepid: all this was too foreign for our concern. So he upgraded his terror by unleashing criminals to invade Crimea, a part of sovereign Ukraine. Now he’s after southeastern …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
