Kiev crisis / Euromaidan (46 Viewers)

[Mister]

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[Dostoevsky]

And they didn't shoot them with binoculars either, the radar doesn't show the colors of the plane, wtf are you talking about.

Dude, it's one thing to mix two boeings. But not these plains.

There are some Fred Flidstone separatists over there though.

lol yea I guess.

 

[radekas]

https://twitter.com/obk/status/489804690964901888/

The tweet is long gone of course.

This is the guy btw -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin

 

[Turk_Bianconero]

Most probably a ploy to cripple Russian influence. Ploy or not, Russians are responsible for the mess.

 

[Mister]

UPDATE: Ukrainian interior ministry adviser, via his Facebook page #MH17 was “shot down w/ a Buk anti-aircraft system by terrorists”

 

[Turk_Bianconero]

I guess USA and Europe are waiting for confirmation of names of the passengers. If they are bunch of Asians, it won't worth to fuck with Russia.

 

[Maddy]

I guess USA and Europe are waiting for confirmation of names of the passengers. If they are bunch of Asians, it won't worth to fuck with Russia.

It wouldn't be worth either way. Besides EU and US expanded sanctions against Russia last night. Sanctions that hurts the russian economy.

 

[radekas]

I guess USA and Europe are waiting for confirmation of names of the passengers. If they are bunch of Asians, it won't worth to fuck with Russia.

Mostly Dutch. 24 US citizens also on board.

gg separatists

 

[Maddy]

Mostly Dutch. 24 US citizens also on board.

gg separatists

Pretty sure The Netherlands will invade eastern Ukraine now.

 

[Hængebøffer]

It wouldn't be worth either way. Besides EU and US expanded sanctions against Russia last night. Sanctions that hurts the russian economy.

And let's be honest; Asians aren't short in supply.

 

[Maddy]

And let's be honest; Asians aren't short in supply.

True, true.

 

[ZoSo]

And let's be honest; Asians aren't short in supply.

 

[Trequartista]

Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?

It doesn't make sense at all.

 

[Maddy]

Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?

It doesn't make sense at all.

#YOLO @swag

 

[Ford Prefect]

This is so fucked, Reuters are claiming that there were 23 US citizens on board, shit will hit the fan is that is accurate,

 

[ZoSo]

to the bomb shelters

 

[Maddy]

This is so fucked, Reuters are claiming that there were 23 US citizens on board, shit will hit the fan is that is accurate,

What kind of shit? It's not like it's Cuba.

 

[Ford Prefect]

What kind of shit? It's not like it's Cuba.

US citizens wern't killed in the cuba missile crisis, which is what you appear to alluding to. The two aren't comparable in the slightest.

 

[radekas]

Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?

It doesn't make sense at all.

Once again. This isn't an official war zone and all airlines were still using this route as it is one of the most attended air routes between Europe and Asia. This stopped now of course.

 

[Brandmon]

Why would a commercial airline even risk flying over a region where there is an armed conflict and where an Ukrainian jet was shot down only yesterday?

It doesn't make sense at all.

High-level flight over low-intensity conflict zones is usually pretty safe. Most anti-air weapons utilised by such insurgents don't fire that high and in any case they don't need to engage anything that high as it is never a threat, unlike low-level military aircraft which are.

At least that is the logic by which any sane force operates under. Instead these morons just recently got hold of a Buk missile system and decided to operate it either without the means of identifying aircraft accurately or the proficiency necessary to operate the weapon system effectively, with the likelihood of it being a combination of both. Thus they simply locked on the first radar signature they happened to acquire and fired away.

TL;DR The rest of the world underestimated how obtuse these fuck-ups are and didn't give notice until it was too late.