Peach
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Putin must be held accountable.
The world must know whose weapon destroyed a passenger plane - The Washington Post
Great editorial:
If the reports are confirmed, the Ukrainian separatists and their sponsors in Moscow will be responsible for a heinous crime. The United States and its allies must insist that those responsible be held accountable including those in the Kremlin.
Predictably, the Ukrainian rebels were doing their best Thursday to cover up what occurred. They denied shooting down the plane, though the wreckage landed in territory they control near the Russian border. Their commander, a Russian citizen and former military officer named Igor Strelkov, claimed in a blog post published Thursday to have shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane, then removed the message. Russias state-controlled media joined in the obfuscation, casting blame on Ukrainian military forces and even suggesting the Malaysian plane was hit by a missile aimed at an aircraft carrying Russian President Vladi*mir Putin. For his part, Mr. Putin disingenuously claimed that Ukraine was at fault because it resumed military operations against the rebels ignoring Russias supply of heavy arms to the insurgents.
Putin is not a friend of the US, and has never been, despite a certain President's claims.