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Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. Tha
by 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 agoThe 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 agoThe US bombed Yugoslavia pursuant to its commitments to NATO, which voted to intervene in the conflict.
- philwelch 13y agoUnder heavy US influence. You use the tools at hand to achieve the goals you want.
- jusben1369 13y agoPhil 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 agoOh, 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 agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
- silentOpen 13y agoIt doesn't have to be only a distraction. There could be hostage negotiations happening between governments right now.