Today is the first-year anniversary of the crash of flight MH17 that was shot down by Russia’s terrorists in Ukraine. I’m kind of frustrated with the American news cycle where everybody discusses some entirely inane article by David Brooks but nobody has even a glimmer of interest in this tragedy. There have been massive developments in the investigation, by the way.
The tragedy is not forgotten in Ukraine, of course. People are talking about it, writing poetry, demanding that the results of the investigation be made public. Today I watched the recently released video that shows the terrorists who shot down the plane walk around the site of the crash, sifting through the luggage and discussing how they made a mistake and took down a civilian plane.
These victims don’t fit in with anybody’s talking points, they don’t support any reductive worldview, they serve no partisan interests here in the US. And that’s why everybody around here prefers to forget about them.
It’s always very curious to observe how actively people reject any information that doesn’t allow them to repeat some string of trivialities they’ve said a hundred times before.
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There’s that and the indifference Americans have to tragedies that don’t have American victims. As you know most of the victims were Dutch and Australian. You’ve seen what UN Ambassador Samantha Powers has said.
I also think a lot of active news followers are overwhelmed. Even so, there’s been very little actual coverage in mainstream news here (not people blabbing about the news).
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Of course, many people follow no news at all and just post photos of cats on Facebook.
I’m sounding old and grumpy.
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