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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by yongjik on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:41AM (#9098963)
On top of everything others said, what kind of nation hijacks a plane with 152 Chinese nationals, unless they want a war with China? (And if they do want a war with China, why bother with such a complicated plot?)

If Russia did it, and if China finds out, does anybody think China will say, "Well, it's Russia, we'll protest at UN and demand economic sanction"? Moscow and Beijing will be in rubbles when the dusts clear.

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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by sleepyhead on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @06:30AM (#9099956)
> hijacks a plane with 152 Chinese nationals, unless they want a war with China

Well they were mostly middle-class normal tourists. Probably not important enough for the Chinese leaders to care about.

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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by prawn on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @03:35AM (#9099432)
Russia took down another Malaysian Airlines plane and virtually nothing has come of that.
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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by jpatokal on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @06:56AM (#9100037)
Full of Dutch nationals, not Chinese. Also, it's unlikely that "Russia" took it down, they merely supplied the weaponry to a bunch of incompetent hotheads who accidentally shot it down.
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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by jakub- on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @08:55AM (#9100481)
According to a report by the Berlin-based Correctiv & Der Spiegel [0], it was Russia's 53rd Air Defence Brigade that was directly operating the missile launcher.

[0] https://mh17.correctiv.org/english/

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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by mrottenkolber on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:13PM (#9101961)
Never trust Der Spiegel. Worst magazine ever.
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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by prawn on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @04:39PM (#9103714)
Included Australians too which incensed our government, but what can realistically be done? What's changed as a result?

And I don't think they accidentally shot down the plane. They might've assumed it was a different plane, but from what I could tell, they intended to shoot it down. If I'm trying to avoid accidentally shooting down planes, I'm generally not firing surface-to-air missiles about the place.

It was an arms-length Russian crew then, and that could well have been the case with the other Malaysian plane. Professional support but professional deniability.

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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by signa11 on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:47AM (#9098989)
> Moscow and Beijing will be in rubbles when the dusts clear.

reminds me of sting's "russian" song, specifically, "i hope the russians love their children too..."

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Re:How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malays... by jfoster on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:19AM (#9099074)
Unlikely. Despite the negative perception, China is quite pragmatic. They wouldn't immediately resort to physical conflict.
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