[RandVal30142]

>This is going to fizzle just like all the previous scary saber-rattling (Iran, Ukraine, etc etc)

Criminal prosecution over Russia's slaughter of civilians on MH17 is coming along nicely.

Talking about it isn't saber-rattling. Talking about it is discussing how Russia invaded Crimea and started a war in Ukraine violently overthrowing local authorities, leading to the downing of a civilian airliner.

[carlossilva33]

I am sorry that Ukrainian people have been suffering war on account of geopolitics.

[RandVal30142]

>war on account of geopolitics.

Russia invaded Crimea with military troops, overthrowing local government. Forces they funneled military hardware to in Ukraine then used a BUK anti-air system on a civilian airliner that had it's transponder on.

Don't try to dismiss this as "geopolitics" as if it was some nebulous unknowable cloud that removes Russia's culpability in the murder of civilians during war aggression.

The victims of MH17 were international[1]. This is not a case of "poor Ukraine suffering under a mysterious cloud of geopolitics."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/mh17-anniversa...