No offense, Mr. Nichols, but I have not noticed any signs that the Russians are panicking.
That’s precisely true. We haven’t noticed.
They are trying to edit Wikipedia to give the SU-25 the capability to do what they claim one from Ukraine did.
There’s blowback coming for Russia.
Hasn’t happened yet, but it’s coming.
They are “panicking” in the sense that it took them days (if they have yet) to land on a media message. The stuff coming over Russian state-owned airways was laughable. But I agree that their “panic” has no bearing over the long run. Russians will do what Russians do. They don’t care.
Neither have I, why should they when the leader of the pack after Putin is Obama, who only p*sses people off.
Heck they can't put any blame on Ukraine's Gov....they have no money to ‘pay up’ when the families of the lost get their attorneys in line, and you can be assured they will........ it would mean Poroshenko’s got to pull back from his brutal bombing of his own people...and that's not going to happen any time soon until he clears all the Russian population out of the East......The NovaRussia fighters have no money.....so of course that would leave only Russia.... Fancy that! (Follow the money includes those earmarked to get it as well).
Who really is the desperate one in this mess?......seems to me Obama’s attempts to crash Europe's ‘partying with Putin’ sanction hits failed..., Putin's kept on ticking with a South American swing under Obama’s nose.... Not to mention cuddling up in bed with China, even sending Michelle there to hold his place while he tangled with his feet in his so called Pivot to Asia......this of course recognizing Putin was whining and dining them all long before Obama got there for his turn around the dance floor.
His freshly installed puppet Poroshenko can't deliver the goods to EU without the Eastern Ukraine goodies, and they've been hijacked by a determined people unwilling to go along to get along with Obama’s pal..... Not to forget the territorial Oligarchs with their militia's who have the funds to keep the East under their control regardless of any collateral damage...... Obama still batting zero.
Meanwhile every player in this “affair” whines and cries out to Russia's Putin in one form or another...”Help us”...”Stop protecting your border”...”Send Weapons”...”Ukraine's not feeding us”...”Cease fire”...”open the borders” ..”Close the Borders”...”Get the Nazi's”....’You'll pay for taking what's mine”....”Don't cross the red-line”....”It's up to you to stop the war”....”Here we'll give you a cookie if you co-operate”...”do this, don't do that”....etc.etc.
Meanwhile KIEV(under Obama’s direction) continues to send barrages of missiles into the East, destroying business, industry and private homes, along with the infrastructure so that when all is said and done the revenues Kiev gets from the IMF will go straight to the outside International Corporate leeches waiting in the wings to rebuild the area. Everybody’s waiting in line for the big payday.......but it's not getting there quick enough...the fighting continues...people keep crying and messing up the streets with more bodies....and the sanctions still aren't working.
So now we suddenly have the worst case scenario...a Commercial Airlines ‘disappears’ off radar....(should raise important and serious questions yesterday today and torrow..why).. ..full of people who had nothing at all to do with that entire regions affairs.....crashes within a known and active war zone....all die. ..and the entire world is now focused on Ukraine.
Obama’s got the satellite images and he's not coughing them up let alone shared them with the public he has them....yet we see the Anti-Kiev fighters handing the airline's black box's over to the International Investigators believing these will exonerate them from fault or at least give the truth....We've got Russia's ‘Official’ statements concerning the flight path and planes in the area, and their assessment sent to the US and all nation leaders....wanting answers......
But the big question....why hasn't Obama handed his stuff over, which we are familiar with him not doing?...and why isn't our news reporting on this?
While this is all going on Obama puts his media machine in full throttle to make certain nobody but Russia is blamed for anything happening.....that's the word demanded across the airwaves..... leveraging (blackmailing) the nations who have their hands in US pockets to do likewise.
There's not a person just sick at heart for the loss of these innocent people......but the outrageous roar “of blame is deafening and far exceeds that of the sorrow and crosses the ‘literal’ red-line of every one who lost their life that day.
We don't know who fired, nor where it came from, nor do we know which side armed who with what until the entire investigation is completed. We may truly never know...but the facts and evidence are clear on one main issue....hundreds died that day and they continue to die daily throughout Eastern Ukraine...and those citizens are equally as significant as the ones lost in the airlines crash.