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Russian militias with Russian military hardware shot down a plane which had 192 Netherlands people on board and there was no response from Netherlands, besides
by dist-epoch 4y ago
Russian militias with Russian military hardware shot down a plane which had 192 Netherlands people on board and there was no response from Netherlands, besides a 8 year long "legal action" which issued arrest warrants.
At minimum they should have sent a squad for the commander who ordered the firing and who is a big social media star today on Russian Telegram.
- jacquesm 4y agoYes, I'm sure starting a war was exactly what was needed at the time. The question really is if we had done that - and there were plenty of voices calling for just that - if the Ukraine situation would have improved or gotten worse. You could make pretty strong arguments either way.
- adolph 4y agoThere was no need for war to send a message. Taking tailored action against the SAM crew, leadership, associates and families would be sufficient and may have been happening already. Ukraine is orthogonal to the issue.
- jacquesm 4y agoI'm pretty sure Russia would have absolutely loved such a pretext.
- stametseater 4y agoIf Russia wanted a pretext to start a war with NATO, they would have invented one already by now.
- lostlogin 4y ago> leadership Including Putin? How would this work?