That’s true, and unless they get a few Putinistas on the jury an American civil jury is more likely to realize that ultimately the dictator Putin pulled the trigger when he gave his proxies these types of weapons. The money for the families won’t bring back the dead, but Putin’s looted money should be given to the victims. Russians apparently don’t mind if their president for life steals from them, but why should the victims of putin’s ultra-nationalist violence not be compensated for his idiotic melodrama?
The Putinistas try to take a complex combination of factors and simplify it in a way that absolves their great “Christian” warrior, Putin. It is shameful, absolutely shameful that Orthodox Russian congregations are stumping for this KGB thug. The likely reality is for some reason, we never know, the flight turned off course. Then we have the Russian backed rebels shooting at everything they can, likely did not realize they just fired on a commercial aircraft. But Putin can’t apologize for their actions, because if he does so, he has to admit his advisers are on the ground with them, and that this coup is backed by him.
Time to hit the Russian people hard. Have them subsisting on furniture and glue for some time. That will teach them for supporting Putin’s actions.