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I'm looking at Russia, and thinking that it would be very convenient for them for Ukraine to drop off the news... which it largely did when this broke. Now wha

I'm looking at Russia, and thinking that it would be very convenient for them for Ukraine to drop off the news... which it largely did when this broke. Now what could cause that - perhaps a good mystery. Everyone likes a good mystery. Baikonur is a pretty f'ing good place to hide something like a 777, and is very proximal to the last possible position. Been there. Middle of nowhere. Airstrip is high security, remote, and has underground hangers. Local populace are very well versed in "I see nothing". It's also jurisdictionally weird, being a bit of Kaz rented to Russia as sovereign territory, meaning that any legal search would be very tricky to arrange to say the least. Add that to the big old pile of theories.

thenmar 13y ago
Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. That's just fucking absurd.
- philwelch 13y ago
  The USA bombed Yugoslavia to distract the world from Bill Clinton fooling around with an intern. Putin plays to win and if he doesn't get caught, what's a couple hundred airline passengers to him?
  - gamblor956 13y ago
    The US bombed Yugoslavia pursuant to its commitments to NATO, which voted to intervene in the conflict.
    - philwelch 13y ago
      Under heavy US influence. You use the tools at hand to achieve the goals you want.
      - jusben1369 13y ago
        Phil the Lewinsky affair (investigation/media sensation) went on literally for months and months (years?). Sit around long enough and the President of the US will do something that you can say "Look! A big decision. Clearly that's a distracting event!!" It's pretty intellectually weak buddy.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > The USA bombed Yugoslavia to distract the world from Bill Clinton fooling around with an intern. That's a rather controversial claim. You could probably make the case that, instead, the Clinton Administration exploited the Right's obsession with the Lewinsky affair to drown out any serious domestic criticsm of its policy in Yugoslavia.
- madaxe_again 13y ago
  Oh, it's totally absurd - but what about this situation isn't? It's pretty unlikely, though, given that it was loaded with Chinese nationals, and if they got rumbled... that'd be some fallout, hopefully just diplomatic.
  - thdd 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
- silentOpen 13y ago
  It doesn't have to be only a distraction. There could be hostage negotiations happening between governments right now.
brianbarker 13y ago
I don't hold much value to this theory for now, but it's not totally absurd given how many truthers think 9/11 was run by the US itself. This isn't as bad as that.

thenmar 13y ago

Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. That's just fucking absurd.

philwelch 13y ago
The USA bombed Yugoslavia to distract the world from Bill Clinton fooling around with an intern. Putin plays to win and if he doesn't get caught, what's a couple hundred airline passengers to him?
- gamblor956 13y ago
  The US bombed Yugoslavia pursuant to its commitments to NATO, which voted to intervene in the conflict.
  - philwelch 13y ago
    Under heavy US influence. You use the tools at hand to achieve the goals you want.
    - jusben1369 13y ago
      Phil the Lewinsky affair (investigation/media sensation) went on literally for months and months (years?). Sit around long enough and the President of the US will do something that you can say "Look! A big decision. Clearly that's a distracting event!!" It's pretty intellectually weak buddy.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > The USA bombed Yugoslavia to distract the world from Bill Clinton fooling around with an intern. That's a rather controversial claim. You could probably make the case that, instead, the Clinton Administration exploited the Right's obsession with the Lewinsky affair to drown out any serious domestic criticsm of its policy in Yugoslavia.
madaxe_again 13y ago
Oh, it's totally absurd - but what about this situation isn't? It's pretty unlikely, though, given that it was loaded with Chinese nationals, and if they got rumbled... that'd be some fallout, hopefully just diplomatic.
- thdd 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
silentOpen 13y ago
It doesn't have to be only a distraction. There could be hostage negotiations happening between governments right now.

brianbarker 13y ago

I don't hold much value to this theory for now, but it's not totally absurd given how many truthers think 9/11 was run by the US itself. This isn't as bad as that.