In Malaysia MH-17- The world Sees Itself

 New economic sanctions from the United States will have damaging effects on the Russian economy and its key energy sector.  They were not applied in response to the attack on the Malaysia Flight MH-17, but by the coincidence of events occurred on the same day. The world's nations consider the attack on the Malaysia aircraft  as an attack upon the rest of the world, and treating all as enemies in all-out combat. With the same non-existent justification as the attacks on Ukraine, Malaysia and the entire world now can feel as Ukraine does, as a victim of savage aggression.

There are events, which by the sheer horror and savagery, force the world's attention on a time, place, and people. Russia has once again found this scornful glare of the world's vision and its contempt. The murders of nearly 300 air passengers over Ukraine has focused the world's judgment on the ruthless and vicious assault by Russia on the Ukraine .  Deliberately taking lives of innocent passersby - women, children, and infants  from many other parts of the world has done this. Simply creating an hysterical atmosphere and a zone of hostilities is not a justification for visiting  the excesses of war on innocent and uninvolved citizens of the world. Operating  a passenger aircraft in international airspace is not a provocation to any responsible State or military.

The mission of a few hired mercenaries in Eastern Ukraine has no valid purpose there, or anywhere, among civilized societies. The softness of the resistance to the Invasion of Crimea and the efforts to foment war with Ukraine have hardened into a firmer resolve. It is now clear that Russia is willing to unleash destruction on every other Nation simply to satisfy a whim for conquest of Ukraine- its weak and un-offending neighbor.

Now as Russia presses deadly hostilities on Ukraine, and recklessly upon every other nation, Western nations will have enormous pressures from domestic constituencies. There is a world-wide will to punish the ruthlessness of Putin's Government. Sanctions that have begin to isolate the regime and its economy.   Western efforts will expand to efforts to dissuade China and others from aiding Russia until it rejoins the circle of civility. Until it renounces killing as a means of achieving its goals, and until its goals conform with international rights and obligations.