Posted on 07/17/2014 4:16:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We're better off with the Traitor-in-Chief doing something other than fundamentally destroying the United States of America.
Knock it off with the posting of snippets from news organizations. Especially from copyrighted sources.
And the spamming too.
True, no one gains from this.
Why was a commercial airliner flying through airspace they had been warned wasn't safe??
IMO this was some type of horrendous error.... I'd sure hate to be the guy who launched that missile :-(
It was a Malaysian Airlines commercial airliner. Rumor has it the Malaysians are light on both competence and spare change. They were trying to save fuel by not diverting around Ukraine. Instead, they flew straight across the country for 700+ miles and were almost to Russia before they got hit.
A couple of days ago, someone on FR predicted an airliner would soon get hit. Only, IIRC, they thought it would be Moscow - Tel Aviv, not Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur.
It was Putin’s response to the sanctions.
Article title:
U.S. sanctions targeted Russian missile makers
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-u-s-sanctions-targeted-russian-missile-makers/
This isn't rocket surgery. How about taking Obama out of it and looking at what the rebels themselves said? Jeepers
it could have been a newbie mistake. someone in a vodka induced haze.. you can never tell with these “insurgents”..
"The Ukrainian rebels, who want to separate and join Russia, did it by mistake."
That's the most likely scenario. People who don't have any means of checking commercial flights vs military flights but do have enough knowledge to lock up a target then launch are probably the shooters.
Other things are possible, but nothing is any where near as probable as people who figure their SAM capability is a "use it or loose it" weapon downing the plane.
Nitwits with advanced weapons are a scourge to both their supporters and their enemies.
Just look at Hamas doing far more damage to their own people than to Israel. The Ukraine separatists are so far not quite as bad but with the increasing use of intense artillery fire by the Kiev side, they're going down the same path.
The rebels reported to their GRU superior within minutes of shooting this civilian plane down. Putin and the Russian intel and military own this.
I appreciate that you still remember Benghazi. What it has to do with this event is sketchy. If you are so worked-up about the Obama Administration’s action’s in that debacle, why not remove it from the occasion and look to what the Russian rebels themselves have said? Or is that too difficult?
Save the obfuscation and propaganda. Observers in Russia from Rostov to the border with the Ukraine have been reporting the movements of Russia’s most sophisticated SAM batteries behind the border in Russia and across the border into the Ukraine. One Russian who approvingly published a video illustrating the Russians firing these SAMs from Russian territory was arrested by Russia’s FSB for giving away the evidence on the Internet. It is irrelevant that Russian mercenaries in the Ukraine captured the SAM batteries of a Ukrainian unit, because we can plainly see Russian SAM batteries being moved into and used in the engagements.
It is also all too obvious from SIGINT intercepts of the communications between the Russian officers commanding the terrorist operations in the Ukraine and their superiors in Moscow are working for the Russian government and Putin. They even bragged about shooting down an aircraft until they realized it was MH17, and then they resented getting caught doing it, plaintively saying the victims deserved it and should have known better than to use the rebels’ skies.
Thee murderers know no shame for their grievous crimes.
Nah not too difficult.
What is oh so surprising is the deafening silence from all the Putin bootlickers on this site. Whenever there is a story on Ukraine, they pile on like flies to s**t.
Where is the neo-soviet wing of FR?
My guess is, for the next few hours, you just need to deal with the Paultards.
lol....figured they’re all collectively bent over waiting for Putin’s instructions.
Paultards may be silly, but at least they make me laugh.
Obfuscation and propaganda? What I posted supported the notion that the Russian-backed rebels had a BUK missile launcher, and so had the means to shoot down the airliner. They seized it in their capture of a Ukrainian missile base a few months ago. I obviously am no fan of KGB Putin.
Sorry, I see what you’re saying: the Russians themselves shot down the airliner. I’ve have to read up on this some more. Haven’t been able to closely follow the latest news these past few months.
Check out the Breaking News thread. Looks like they’re waking up in Moscow.
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