Guess what could happen to Russia over this. Go ahead. Guess.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed [in Ukraine] last year after it was hit by a Russian-made Buk surface to air missile, an air safety investigation has found, which killed the pilots immediately but may have left passengers alive for up to a full minute and a half.
A report by the Dutch Safety Board, released on Tuesday in the Netherlands, found that a Russian-made Buk missile exploded just a few metres above and to the left of the plane’s cockpit.
Yup: nothing. The Russians will dutifully claim that it wasn’t one of their Ukrainian rebel groups that shot down the plane; and it’s not like anybody’s going to call them on that, these days. Well, until January 2017, of course.
Moe Lane
PS: I do not like Vladimir Putin. His friends are not my friends; and if his enemies are my enemies, it is by the merest accident. We are not on the same side in any meaningful sense.
I am reminded of Iranian Air Flight 655. Not making excuses for the shooting down of MH17, but any aircraft flying over a “zone of conflict” or entering “restricted airspace” is taking a chance.
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I do agree that nothing will happen to Russia because of this — even after January, 2017. They have “plausible deniability” in “Ukrainian Rebels”.
I doubt anything official will happen.
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That’s not the same as “nothing” .. but how measurable the difference is will depend on which family moves into that D.C. government housing project on Pennsylvania ..
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Mew
From the article:
“However the investigators did not directly confront another Russian theory: that the missile was fired by the Ukrainian army, rather than by Russian-backed separatists…”
They also didn’t rule out martians or Majestic-12.
Why? For the same reason.
“Computer simulations backed up this theory, and it was also corroborated by millisecond analysis of the cockpit voice recorder.”
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Computer simulations also back up global warming for the same reason.
Re: your PS: maxim 29
*nods* .. was gonna post that very thing.
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Mew