What worries me is that they are not treating this like they treated the Ukraine accidental shoot down of a Russian commercial plane. Or the US accidentally shoot down of an Iranian civilian airliner. Why treat the situations differently ? They are assuming the rebels wanted to bring down a civilian plane, when previously the rebels had only shot down military planes.
The difference these 300 people just died because of Russia’s unlawful warfare on it’s neighbor. There are no accidents or do overs in unlawful warfare.
Unlawful war ? The Ukraine coup government declared the Russian language illegal. How could the 5 million ethnic Russian separatists declare lawful war when their language was illegal ?
Separatist revolutions become lawful only when they are successful. Ask Mr Franklin.