In Court of Public Opinion, Putin Goes on Trial from the Editorial Board of the Washington Post
"Investigators are still far from an official judgment of what brought down a Malaysia Airlines flight in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew onboard. But in the global court of public opinion, the verdict appears to be rendered. Vladimir Putin is guilty. The Russian president could once claim a semblance of a role as a global statesman. But with the downing of a commercial airliner by what U.S. and Ukrainian officials suggest was a Russian missile, supplied to pro-Moscow rebels, Putin was facing a personal barrage of worldwide condemnation that threatened to result in further sanctions on Russia if it did not rapidly change course in Ukraine."
This whole Ukrainian adventure is turning into quite the fiasco for Putin. You can't play the role of old timey superpower -- if you aren't one! Putin tried to fake it here -- but all indications are here that his erstwhile allies in eastern Ukraine have their own agenda ... and Putin has little or no control over them. Meanwhile, the US and Europe are strengthening their ties with the Ukrainian government, and, just as important, the Ukrainian people are getting really clear what future they want to live into -- and it doesn't include Russia!
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