Russian roulette in Ukrainian sky | Flight MH17

For the British magazine, The Economist, the destruction of the Boeing 777 results from the incompetence of the men who received missiles from the Russians without undergoing formal training or receiving a direct order from superiors. It is very likely that the Kremlin will try to blame Ukraine for this incident. It is important to punish Putin for his bellicose and expansionist policies; it is clear that the Kremlin will not stop at the Donbas. In Georgia, Moscow was not content with Abkhazia. Putin represents a real threat to the Baltic countries and Kazakhstan. His policy is not called into question in Russia by dint of the Kremlin media propaganda machine. The media with one exception blames Russia for the Malaysian Airlines explosion and is in favour of putting sanctions in place against Putin's regime.

Only Causeur disagrees, taking a truly pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian stance. This newspaper gives the floor to Slobodan Despot, a Swiss writer of Serbian origins (pro-Russian, anti-American and homophobic) who associates the West with decadence and bankers. In an inflamed article entitled "Misery of Occidentalism", the author asserts that the West is responsible for Islamization and is hostile to Russian identity, by which he means a Slavic identity associated with respect for the family, Christianity and heroism. Westerners describe Russians as brutes while being responsible for Guantanamo and horrors in the Middle East. According to Despot, the West has been giving birth to jihadists and Nazis (supporting the "enraged Nazis in Kiev"), whereas Russia is referred to as “the outpost of the first decolonization”.

FORM-Idea.com London, 22/01/20 | Read the French version