“I don’t think there’s any evidence that Putin was deliberately responsible.”
‘Ras’Putin is deliberately responsible for the cover-up at the crash sight! He is evil, whether he ordered it shot down or not!
I do believe that a Russian ‘military advisor’ in that part of the Ukraine was directly responsible for downing that airliner. I also believe that Putin was directly responsible for that mobile rocket launcher and rockets to be there in the hands of the Ukraine opposition (they are actually Russians posing as ‘opposition’ in my opinion).
No question that Putin took advantage of the turmoil in the Ukraine (started by Ukrainian activists funded by Soros) to grab Crimea. Crimea used to be Russian until it was given to Ukraine at a time with Russia was too weak to object, and it’s their only direct access to southern waters). But I don’t see any reason whatever why Putin would have engineered shooting down this plane.