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Every now and then bellingcat covers a "lesser" news story like this one, so they can pretend their main purpose isn't to push for regime change in Syria.
by nencrystation 7y ago
Every now and then bellingcat covers a "lesser" news story like this one, so they can pretend their main purpose isn't to push for regime change in Syria.
- howard941 7y agobellingcat made its mark documenting the MH17 shootdown. https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mh17/ https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mh17/ has the exhaustive history
- lazyjones 7y agoThis narrative is falling apart lately with the Dutch parliament pushing unanimously to investigate the role of Ukrainian forces in the attack, Bellingcat is apparently just a pro-US propaganda tool.
- codezero 7y agoI am not super up to speed on this news, but I had a quick look and my guess as to why you are being downvoted, is without context, it sounds like you are implying Ukraine may have had some role worth investigating in the shooting down of MH17. That is not the case. It sounds like the consensus is that pro-Russian troops brought a missile over from Russia, and shot down MH17. What the Dutch parliament is proposing an investigation into, is whether Ukraine should have officially shut down its airspace. Implying that Ukraine is at fault for shooting down an airliner because they did not shut down the airspace seems like blaming someone for being raped and shot because they didn't lock their front door, which is patently absurd.
- Udik 7y agoLet's say they seem to be consistently on one side of the Russia - USA disputes, of which Syria has been one of the issues. Just a quick browsing of the articles published in the last few months show that the vast majority of the investigations is focused on various malfeasances of Russia, Syria or Iran.
- varjag 7y agoBellingcat investigations on Syria predate Russian involvement in Syria.
- Udik 7y agoBellingcat was founded in July 2014, while Russia has been siding with Assad from the start of the war- vetoing sanctions, providing weapons and preventing an open attack by the US in 2013.
- varjag 7y agoRussia did not enter Syria until 2015. Bellingcat's founder was already publishing on Syrian conflict in 2012.
- varjag 7y agoIt's not just chemtruthers and Assadists that are mad on Bellingcat. They stepped on plenty of toes elsewhere.
- Udik 7y agoExamples?
- varjag 7y agoOuting the Russian GRU operatives in Novichok affair. Tracking the cross border movement of Buk TELAR that likely shot down MH17. Investigations on C14 and other associated neo-Nazi groups of Ukraine. Sources of Italian Lega Nord financing. Aleppo mosque bombing by USAF. etc etc
- peteretep 7y agoSo?