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In reply to the discussion: Should the downing of this airliner have any long term effect on our relationship with Russia? [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)49. It depends on how Russia handles it, i.e.,
1. How long it takes for them to find some fucking decency and allow the dead to be counted, repatriated and buried...
2. How long it takes for them to allow crash investigators to have full, unfettered access to the site
3. How much (if any) they have interfered with the site or obstructed the investigation
Right now Putin needs to come clean and be thanking his lucky stars that it was "only" Malaysian...If that 777 said Air France or British Airways or El Al on the side and Putin started playing cute games with crash investigators, we'd probably be close to the brink of WWIII about now...
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Should the downing of this airliner have any long term effect on our relationship with Russia? [View all]
yurbud
Jul 2014
OP
Putin has grown obsessed with reconstituting the control of the Soviet Union
davidn3600
Jul 2014
#24
I'm curious, who is charging that Putin and his loons downed it intentionally knowing
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#4
Well, Reagan-era bad ideas notwithstanding, why did Putin give his toddlers a loaded gun
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#6
Does our government give a rat's ass about the maturity of right wing regimes we arm?
yurbud
Jul 2014
#13
Is that the topic? Because I thought the topic was the airliner that was shot down.
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#19
Like we gave Saddam Hussein, like we gave Al Queda in Afghanistan, like we gave the Syrian 'rebels'
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#51
You're aware that Putin enables Assad to kill Syrian civilians by the city block, right?
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#22
our government has done every single one of those things and led to far greater loss of life
yurbud
Jul 2014
#12
So really, you started this thread to say the USA is bad ergo Russia is not bad?
KittyWampus
Jul 2014
#15
At this point we should demand that Putin stop backing and arming the separatists,
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#34
Russia wants to corner the market on enabling rogue regimes, they hate it when we muscle in--
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#38
Those of you who present the choices as war or just forgetting it happened are working an agenda
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#23
That was proof of the US as Great Satan. This? Just a sad little accident.
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#26
is that sarcasm? Like this incident, I don't see the value to our government in doing that
yurbud
Jul 2014
#41
I'm intrigued by the tactic of searching for winners and losers, who gains or
TwilightGardener
Jul 2014
#43
it depends on how severe they are. I'm all for restitution and things along that line
yurbud
Jul 2014
#44
the Iranians disliked us because we disliked them, but they didn't have the means to retaliate.
yurbud
Jul 2014
#30