malaysian plane down in ukraine

[John Galt]

hopefully those people passed out. horrible.

[The Comrade]

Apparently the seperatista claimed to have shot down a military transport today and then quickly deleted the post. The plan they claimed to have shot down is an antonov military transport which is the same size and look as a commercial airliner. This probably wasn't intentional then but the issue now is that Russia is supplying these idiots with SAMs.

[uebermann]

Enough with the off-topic video game posts.

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[uebermann]

[micfranklin]

[uebermann]

[The Comrade]

the reddit thread on this has some interesting information http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comme ... e_ukraine/

1. the separatists did it. tons of bragging about shooting down an an-26 and then deleted tweets/posts once the truth came out
2. pretty sure it was a BUK SAM. no f**k clue why the ukrainian military didn't at least try to destroy that before the separatists could use it. those things are serious f**k business.
3. lots of american and NATO citizens on this flight. i'd actually be shocked if this didn't preclude western military involvement in crushing the seperatists. at the very least i see predator drones flying over eastern ukraine now.
4. seperatists won't allow officials near the crash site and plan on handing everything over to the russians. 295 civilians buried in a mass grave because some shitbags won't accept ukraine as their country might be all the emotional push needed to whip the west up into a nice frothy rage.

[John Galt]

that reddit thread has all sorts of conspiracy theories about putin's plane crossing the same place 20 minutes previous to that one and that it was intended for him