Charade

The Russia I see is an intransigent hand raised 

disdainfully in federation la la land; the Security 

Council isn’t an ocean of Muscovite duplicity or 

have we missed something - were they indeed 

Russian-backed separatists Moscow deny who 

shot MH17 - with 298 passengers & crew, from 

the sky over eastern Ukraine July 17 last year? 

Vetoing the UN international criminal tribunal’s 

Formation to investigate’s a peculiarly Russian 

way of saying nyet - not that we haven’t heard 

it before, & you can bet Vitaly Churkin obeyed 

his directions from Moscow; so there’s likely a 

whole lot of truth in an assertion this ‘charade’ 

is an already replayed ‘razluka’ farce 

© 30 July 2015, I. D. Carswell