But it was what came after that really sealed it. It wasn't just that the Netherlands alone lost 193 people, the largest Dutch loss of life since World War II.Īnd it wasn't even that Russia made this all possible by, according to all credible accounts, providing pro-Moscow separatists with a sophisticated BUK surface-to-air missile system capable of shooting down a civilian airliner flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
It wasn't just that 80 of the victims were children.
It wasn't just that the downing of Flight MH17 killed 298 people from 10 countries and four continents. Jwas the day Russia became a rogue state. It was the day when it became impossible to continue even pretending that Vladimir Putin's regime was anything close to respectable.
It was the day the Kremlin lost its last vestiges of credibility. It was the day Moscow's dreams of empire cost European lives.
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