This would not be surprising, since it is most likely that the
Kremlin-backed leaders shot down the airliner in the first place. If
they don’t care for the sanctity of human life, why would they care
whose possessions they steal?
The Russians leading the militants are just aping the barbarism of their supreme leader, Moscow’s Vladimir Putin, who stole an entire peninsula from Ukraine at gunpoint. Citing a government report, The Moscow Times reports that, with Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, the nation gained 467 health spas, 232 hotels, 92 children’s health camps and 517 kilometers of beach. This is only the start of how Russia will try to enrich itself at Ukraine’s expense, especially if optimistic scenarios for Black Sea energy deposits turn out to be true.
The world can’t jail Russia or Putin, but it can stop doing business with them. Tough sanctions are the way
