{"id":6175,"date":"2014-07-21T00:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/21\/ukraine-crisis-goes-global\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T00:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:32:24","slug":"ukraine-crisis-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6175","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine crisis goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Suddenly and with maximum shock and grief, the struggle between Ukraine and Russia has become far more than just a regional conflict.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gone global.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine jacks up the ante in this struggle to a level that cannot yet be calculated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"With Jet Strike, War in Ukraine Is Felt Globally\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F07%2F20%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fwith-jets-fall-war-in-ukraine-is-felt-globally.html#?secret=VmWw6xiEGJ\" data-secret=\"VmWw6xiEGJ\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than 300 innocent victims are dead reportedly from a missile strike launched by pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists who want their country to rejoin their giant neighbor to the east.<\/p>\n<p>What is the world to do about this?<\/p>\n<p>Well, President Obama is considering even tighter economic sanction against Russia, given reports that Moscow might have had a hand in supplying the weaponry used to down MH 17.<\/p>\n<p>My own belief is that we mustn&#8217;t keep issuing &#8220;targeted&#8221; sanctions, if that&#8217;s the course we&#8217;re going to take. We ought to start freezing some serious assets, slap embargoes on Russia or perhaps remove large numbers of embassy and consulate personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Should we sever diplomatic relations? No. The plane did carry a single American passenger but that&#8217;s not enough of a reason to end our diplomatic relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>But someone in Moscow needs to be held accountable for what happened. What on God&#8217;s Earth possesses even the most fervent militants to do this, if that indeed is what happened?<\/p>\n<p>It appears we&#8217;ve got an increasingly global fight on our hands. It&#8217;s not a cause for us to become militarily, but there ought to be some economic hell to pay for this heinous act of terror.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly and with maximum shock and grief, the struggle between Ukraine and Russia has become far more than just a regional conflict. It&#8217;s gone global. The apparent shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine jacks up the ante in this struggle to a level that cannot yet be calculated. 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