Russians shoot down a civilian airliner...

[Dondilion]

Sanctions are good for Russia. It is a huge country with multiple time zones.

It is time for Russians to look to and invest in Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg, instead of London, Paris and
New York.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

How much did we pay?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

So if Russia coughs up roughly $430,000.00 per passenger we're all good?

[one1]

What if it was not Russian missile,Could a hellfire launched from a drone bring down a 777? just something to consider.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by JJIII

So if Russia coughs up roughly $430,000.00 per passenger we're all good?

Nobody is sure who shot down the airline.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Nobody is sure who shot down the airline.

And Putin is going to do whatever he can to keep it that way. I can't help but believe that Putin knows full well what happened with one of his weapons systems inside rebel territory 30 miles from his border. He just wants to sow enough doubt that gullible Russians without access to (or interest in) the truth will continue to support him. Putin is as duplicitous as the day is long.

I wouldn't put it past him to secure the black boxes with help from the separatists, deny that he has them, and then use the fact that the black boxes are missing to cast doubt as to the findings of any international investigation.

[Dondilion]

How old is that weapon system?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

How old is that weapon system?

WTF does that matter? It must get tiresome being an apologist for Putin.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by JJIII

So if Russia coughs up roughly $430,000.00 per passenger we're all good?

Seems to me we got off cheap if that's what we paid for going into another country's air space and shooting down one of their domestic airliners.

But somehow the US gets away with shit like that and then we get all righteously indignant if anyone else does it.

We don't have any room to talk.

We're a bunch of bloodthirsty murdering international war criminals who get away with all kinds of shit because we are the biggest baddest dawg on the block.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by finnbow

WTF does that matter? It must get tiresome being an apologist for Putin.

No he is a great modern Russian leader.

[Zeke]

Mistakes happen with too much weaponry within too confined an area.

Unless you can directly evidence that more safety is added by the presence of such tools than is eradicated by their existence, you have too much weaponry.

It's sort of my blown up gun control argument.