cheesewithwhine on Reddit wrote:The reason politics is so dysfunctional is because half of the people in government gain political victories by sabotaging government and then claiming that government doesn't work.
A very similar strategy is being used in Ukraine. For instance, it was claimed that the separatists didn't grant access to the crash site quickly enough, but they were under siege by the forces from Kiev and couldn't allow access since they were busy defending themselves. Similarly, Putin is supposed to have enough control over the separatists to be able to order them to cease fire at any time, but in reality the only way that he could have secured the crash site in order to allow investigators access would have been to send his military into the area to secure the perimeter in which case he would have been accused of a military invasion of Ukraine. Our politicians want to have their cake and eat it too and right now the press is allowing them to get away with exactly that!