Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters

Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by 3princip on Friday October 16, 2015 @08:59AM (#10398937)

How many planes were shot down by the US (Iranian planes to be specific)?

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

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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by smcl on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:10AM (#10398983)

This a lovely example of the irritating "whataboutism" that clouds these sorts of discussions and bring nothing to the table.

Iranian Air Flight 655 has nothing to do with the article or this discussion.

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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by datalist on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:16AM (#10399021)

To be fair igor_a started dragging unrelated what-if scenarions about Russia into the discussion.

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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by smcl on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:46AM (#10399185)

You're right - both are unrelated, I should've mentioned the pair of them

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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by igor_a on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:17AM (#10399029)

Yep they shot it and admitted it. It's a big difference

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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Fligh... by igor_a on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:21AM (#10399049)

I meant difference not about the fact that somebody shot the plane, but the difference in reaction.

Why Russia blocked tribunal? What about all that clowning around investigation, throwing a new weird version about accident (what about the version that goes about frozen bodies or version about shooting down the plane by Ukrainian Su-25 that can't reach that altitude? All of this went through Russian state TV channels and other state people (Investigation Committee etc.)

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