and the shooting down of another country’s civilian airliner
It’s interesting how much I’ve see this being trotted out on here recently. Whoever shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, separatists or Russian regular forces (the Dutch Safety Board concluded it was separatists), it was without any doubt a “mistake”.
Not something which is, however tragic, completely surprising when you consider that it was flying directly over a war zone in which war planes were being actively deployed for combat missions.
Yet some people nevertheless insist on being completely disingenuous by pretending that it was a deliberate act, even though the shooting down of a Malaysian scheduled international passenger flight could not possibly have had the slightest military benefit.
In fact it caused those responsible the needless loss of an expensive missile, and shed-loads of extremely bad global publicity. And yet they still want to pretend that it was done deliberately as they pursue their endless quest to sling mud at Russia at every possible opportunity.
Iran Air Flight 655 was flying in Iranian airspace, over Iranian territorial waters, along the flight’s usual flight path, when it was shot down by an American missile fired from a US naval ship operating illegally within Iranian territorial waters.
All passengers on-board died. The US was not at the time engaged in any sort of war.
I have never however pretended that this was anything other than a mistake or used it to attack the United States – even though they didn’t have the right to be where they were.
And that’s leaving out all the “mistakes” when the US has attacked and slaughtered people attending wedding parties.
When people drag out the tragic incident of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 when attacking Russia it smacks of desperation – it’s as if they are struggling to find sufficient ammunition.
