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In reply to the discussion: MH17 crash: Dutch experts say numerous objects hit plane [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)Nothing has changed. Of course, the Ukrainian conspiracy theory supported by social media "evidence" may well be true, that somehow a missile system was smuggled into Ukraine and quickly spirited across the border again once the tragic mistake was discovered. There are other, more nefarious possibilities, though, involving the theory that somebody had an interest to blame a humanitarian catastrophe on Russia, or at least deliberately put civilian airliners at risk.
The crazy idea that "the rebels could have in fact been directed to down a *Russian* plane intentionally" assumes that Russian airplanes were operating in this conflict. If this is what the Ukrainians believed, it explains why they deployed Buk missile launchers in the area themselves, a proven fact that still escapes the attention of most conspiracy theorists who want to blame everything on Russia.