Posted on 07/19/2014 6:21:55 AM PDT by Renfield
They thought it was a military plane. IE - Accidental shooting. Unless you can provide some actual evidence other then articles from Time.
So Putin is free to shoot down Ukrainian aircraft? How about Latvian? Putin can manufacture a pretext anyplace there are Russians. Where does his killing end?
There is nothing accidental about Russia placing WMD SAM batteries in Ukraine and firing them. That they mistargeted and shot down the wrong plane is TOTALLY irrelevant.
Just admit you don’t have a problem with Putin killing Ukrainians to achieve political goals. Or Russian citizens. 20,000 civilians in Chechnya alone. Given that you probably haven’t noticed that no one died in Russian free Slovyansk this week. Meanwhile in Russian occupied Lugansk 40 people died yesterday. See the difference? No Russians, No deaths. Comprende?
Called Bundle chaff. It is composed of continuous strands and dispensed from a roll. The blades cut the chaff as it is dispensed. Lengths cut vary depending on frequency desired. But the stuff falling looks like long strands of this. And it is sold to Eastern European companies.
Both sides have been killing. The US is now in a position of weakness thanks to progressive anti-military policies. There is not much we can do at present. And Europe cannot even contain its own Muslim population. If Putin really wants dead Europeans he will smuggle crates of AK-47's into European Mosques. So I would not recommend pushing his buttons until the west solves its problems.
To drop chaff if a missile was fired at the VIP civilian plane. Hopefully to divert the missile away from the civilian airplane that did not have chaff capabilities. We have a video that could be showing long strands of bundle chaff falling right after the crash. And the Ukranians had lost two planes in the past two days in that area.
A truck-mounted Buk battery has four missiles. Even if one of the escort fighters survives, he's not going to bother you unless he has a nuke.
Depends on if they ramped up their missile avoidance systems and what type of planes they sent for escort. A bundle chaff dispenser can operate from a pod mounted on a rail. And I am giving the Ukranians the benefit of the doubt here. Obviously one can imply they were just using the plane to take any missile fired their way. But we must assume they had good intentions. They are of the west.
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No one died in Donbas until Russians arrived in April and stated killing. No one has died in Slovyansk since they left. Why is it difficult to understand? No Russians, no deaths.
This leaves out Dagestan but who's counting. 
No offense, but that appears to be a bit racist. Are you implying that all Russians are killers ? Do you want to expel all Russians from foreign countries ?
“” “” This article actually confirms it was the Ukrainian rebels that committed this heinous act of mass murder.
I have read that they couldn’t have done it without Russian technical support. This means that the creature Putin committed this act of mass murder.
Justice for Putin would come at the end of a rope.
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Why murder? There have been war and people have been killed.
As for the theory in the article it sounds far-fetched but it is not impossible for Ukraine to arrange such a thing based on their moral background. After all the coup government gunned down 100 its own supporters to pin it on the previous government and have it overthrowned.
Why do you think I would stop before destroying a civilian airliner?
Once again even if the rebels shot it who allowed it into an active war zone with numerous planes coming down for several days? Not the rebels and not Putin.
As for Putin I am not a fan of him, but would you support hanging Reagan for iran Air ‘murder’?
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