What threat did the USA face from the passenger plane it shot down in 1988?
What threat did Ukraine face from the passenger plane it mistakenly shot down in 2001?
The comparison is perfectly valid.
All 3 were mistakes.
In the case of the the Malaysian flight, it would have been easy and common sense to route around the small war zone.
Some of the Malaysian flight crew protested the route beforehand, some even switched shifts specifically to avoid it. Most Airlines avoided the small Ukraine warzone by policy.
Why? Because not directly overflying a warzone is common sense.
The Vincennes had just been engaged in combat and thought they were under attack from a fighter plane that was close and coming at them.
The Russian invaders were just shooting at something at 33,000 feet that had nothing to do with them.
You can look at the arguments for the U.S. military’s mistake 30 years ago but what are your reasons for justifying this situation that happened this past week, and why are you so desperate to find some way to justify it anyway?
Why don’t you just go straight to your anti-West, Pro-Russia arguments?
Let me guess, you are Orthodox, so of course you feel the need to side with with the KGB guy over America and the West.