Clarissa's Blog

Every gormless idiot under the Sun is writing that the tragedy of Flight MH17 will be “a gamechanger” for Putin. This is completely stupid, of course. The terrorists who shot down the plane are not letting the investigative commission approach the crash site. They are drunk, they are laughing, they are marauding among the remains. They are having fun with this. Everybody in Russia agrees with Putin’s statement that Ukraine is to blame because Ukrainians created the situation where some brave folks felt the need to defend themselves and fired the missile that hit the plane.

What gamechanger? Westerners need to stop assuming that Putin or his troops give a rat’s ass about the Europeans’ or Anericans’ opinion of them. Enough with the ridiculous , “We are going to show Putin that we are upset and he will jump to attention.” He won’t. He doesn’t care.

This should have been a gamechanger for the West with its silly “extreme concern” and idiotic “this is not a Cold War because we don’t want it to be.” An airplane of civilians falls from the sky, and all these clowns can do is call Putin and beg him to “cooperate” because if he doesn’t, the most horrible punishment will be imposed on him. That is, a few of his buddies will not be allowed to travel to Europe. Because nothing more horrible can occur to a person than being denied the right to travel to Europe.

Some facile fool wrote yesterday that most of the world dislikes Putin, which is supposed to be crucially important to the guy because, as we all know, everybody’s goal in life is to be liked. Of course, Putin is massively liked in China, Latin America, and among the especially stupid in the West, but none of this stops the idiots who think, “I don’t like Putin. Poor guy, I don’t know how he deals with being disliked by me. That must be an intolerable misfortune. Maybe I should pity him after all.”

But here is a question to the proponents of “this is a gamechanger” theory. It isn’t a gamechanger for you. You haven’t changed anything in your way of treating Putin. And if it isn’t a gamechanger for you who suffered civilian losses, why should it be for Putin who hasn’t?