MoHasanie said:
We don't know anyone's motives. Its just a possibilty. Who knows though? Maybe it was Ukraine and USA that planned it in a way so that Russia would look bad. Who do you think did it? |
I've already said what I think, a tragedy as the result of Ukrainian army actively playing with dangerous toys without precautions (not for the first time btw, remember that Tu-154 from 2001) provided the plane indeed was shot down. No one else in close proximity could have done this, unless we're going into too much of a conspiracy stuff.
Blaiming rebels is a stretch. I've already said that the only SAM they have, that could have done this is Buk-M1 they've captured from Ukrainian army (there're documental evidence to that including their own claims and photos), but here're the problems:
- they are most likely non-operational (their own claims and they indeed never used it);
- if they operational, what rebels have are 1 or 2 missile launcheres, while a single operational division (зрдн) consists of 6 launchers, 1 command post, 3 reloading machines and 1 tracking and target designation radar, which feeds data to launchers, -- at the very least to successfuly fire a missile they should have at least one radar (this thing), which they don't
- they need trained crew, which they don't have
Blaiming Russia is a stretch because Boeing was in sight but out of reach for Russian air defence.
While blaming Ukrainian army is easy, here're Buks, plenty of them, seems operational (see 0:53), video from July 5th:
