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Why would Putin ever admit to downing a Passenger Jet?

His economy is at ZERO thanks to OBAMA sanctions. Of course creating a world tragedy is a great way to make his people look the other way . How many more crisis will help him and what is his goal in YOUR opinion?

I think he wants back all the land that USSR had and will keep pushing for that. There is no reason to stop when your economy is tanked.

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  • Kini
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    You sound like some teenager who is picking up what other people are putting down which is nonsense.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I honestly cant see what any of them expected to gain from shooting down a passenger plane ? There could only be one result.

    In my view it was an accident.They probably thought they were shooting down a military plane,or there was a Muslim terrorist on board who exploded their bomb.?

    It wasnt Russia that did it. I dont think it was the Russian separatists.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Because he didn't do it. When you strip away all the Geopolitical BS, the facts are you have pro-Kiev Ukrainians(who feel sympathy for the EU), and pro-Donetsk Ukranians(who feel sympathy for Russia).

    Ukraine isn't a part of NATO, so with all the big-talk, no help will come.

    Russia is making a point of it, to not do anything, they even left the border unguarded to prove that point(because the EU demands both a retrieval of troops, AND extra border protection, Russia is saying choose 1), and they already told the seperatists, no help will come.

    Now for some reason the Politicians feel the need to keep making this a NATO v. Russia issue, when the facts are, it's not.

    And that displaced reality, is allowing the Civil War in Ukraine to just rage on, and get more, and more out of hand.

    Source(s): Even today, right behind the Dutch identification team going to Donetsk, Kiev launched a full assault on the city, putting those teams in danger, but because all the politicians are so busy playing Geopolitical mind-games, there's no outrage about that. It's a mess, because we won't acknowledge facts, this is a Ukraine problem, and it can't be solved in Moscow, Washington, or Brussels, it needs to be solved IN Ukraine.
  • 7 years ago

    He needs to pull all those pro-russia rebels out of Ukraine as they have no business there. Putin is trying to destabalize Ukraine so he can invade just like he did to Crimea.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    At 5.21 there was a military aircraft picked up by Russian radar, quite close to the downed plane. Military aircraft belonging to Ukraine.

    In 2001, Ukrainian government downed an civilian passenger plane using missiles, during an exercise, only came clean after international investigation.

    U.S promoted the Ukrainian civil war with the help of the E.U. What does Putin get from downing the plane? Zilch.Putin's plane flew over the same space after signing the Brics version of the IMF bank. Was Putin's plane the target via the U.S backed Ukrainian government who is killing its own civilians with immunity? Or did they think it was a russian transport plane delivering supplies thus fair game?

    The sanctions will damage the E.U, Russia trades with China. China picks up the tab for bankrupt or overspent U.S.

    Why doesn't U.S scream about this their greatest achievement?

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-leader-abu-bakr-...

    'former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

    Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.

    NSA documents refer to recent implementation of the hornet’s nest to protect the Zionist entity by creating religious and Islamic slogans.

    According to documents released by Snowden, “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state “is to create an enemy near its borders”.

    Leaks revealed that ISIS leader and cleric Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi took intensive military training for a whole year in the hands of Mossad, besides courses in theology and the art of speech.'

    The days of america being a shining star died, 2003 & 2008, demonstrated the bigger the crime, zero the punishment.

    U.S economy is dead turkey. Not if it tanks, BUT WHEN!!!

    Its U.S who needs endless wars. The only crappy game in town. U.S had $5 billion to blow to destabilize Ukraine. U.S fanned the Ukrainian civil war. Kerry' son/buddies got over paid jobs thanks to that shindig. It' U.S who looks suspect each and every time.

    If the corporate media has its way it wants war, it needs war. War=$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

    The ruling elite, lazy, immoral, only exist to serve the needs of the oligarchy, that is U.S.

    NATO has no purpose. 2013, its spending $1.93 billion. It needs more money. To get it it needs to invent enemies. U.S democracy?

    U.S allowed the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Pakistan, N. Korea, as long as the war mongers make money its capitalism.

    Every country U.S wants a war is NOT INTEGRATED into the basketcase that is the U.S (fed by fed) / E.U (money in bank accounts will be seized by government if the turkey sorry bank is about to hit the toilet, just like Argentina, E.U no better) banking system.

    U.S B.S can only be believed so far and no further. The next war U.S launches may end the world. U.S lies are beginning to wear thin. U.S is a bully superpower on its way out, just like the roman empire.

    In a global world there are global news channels, not only the crappy echo chambers, of the ruling elite designed to keep them in power. U.S is the new USSR, billionaire owners peddling propaganda disguised as news, at least those living under communism knew they were being screwed.

    According to President Trueman, for U.S capitalism to survive/thrive ALL the world HAD to HAVE capitalism, or they might see the mismatch between the rhetoric and the truth. After USSR/E Germany fell U,S didn't flourish.

    Greed = failure.

    Try learning the facts from independent news sources. They dont get paid $6 million to bleat whatever government wants repeated.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/18/planned-cha...

    seeds of the chaos were planted some 25 years ago, when the Berlin Wall Collapsed. Since the rationale for the large and growing military apparatus during the Cold War years was the “threat of communism,” U.S. citizens celebrated the collapse of the Wall as the end of militarism and the dawn of “peace dividends”—a reference to the benefits that, it was hoped, many would enjoy in the United States as a result of a reorientation of part of the Pentagon’s budget toward non-military social needs.

    But while the majority of the U.S. citizens celebrated the prospects of what appeared to be imminent “peace dividends,” the powerful interests vested in the expansion of military/security spending felt threatened. Not surprisingly, these influential forces moved swiftly to safeguard their interests in the face of the “threat of peace.”

    To stifle the voices that demanded peace dividends, beneficiaries of war and militarism began to methodically redefine the post-Cold War “sources of threat” in the broader framework of the new multi-polar world, which goes way beyond the traditional “Soviet threat” of the bipolar world of the Cold War era. Instead of the “communist threat” of the Soviet era, the “menace” of “rogue states,” of radical Islam and of “global terrorism” would have to do as new enemies.

    Publicly, most of the reassessment of the post-Cold War world was presented by the top military brass. For example, General Carl Vuno, Chief of Staff of the US Army, told a House Committee in May 1989: “Much more complex [than any peril posed by the Soviet Union] is the threat situation developing in the rest of the world. . . . In this increasingly multipolar world, we face the potential of multiple threats from countries and factors which are becoming more sophisticated militarily and more aggressive politically” [2].'

    U.S quite happy to allow the massacre of women and children. Read for yourself. Ethical? Inspirational?

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

  • 7 years ago

    You have to be careful with what is going on. War becomes possible mostly and very aggressively under 2 circumstances. Widely diverse culture and government. Or severe economic pressure.

    Japan was facing increasing economic needs when it attacked China. Facing greater future pressure under US sanctions. Each culture was widely diverse from Japan. Japan attacks US.

    Germany had been economically savaged after WW1 by the Allies, Culturally different too. Result? Vengeance.

    Culturally and traditionally Russians have been suspicious of non Russians. With GOOD reason. The land and people have been invaded and attacked for centuries. Distrust begets distrust. Now, think, we'd been stable with the old USSR. Having it's buffer zones against the West. It's economy hidden and protected from the West and East.

    Now--no buffer zones and economically (as you delight in) under pressure. Do you really want the OLD Russian arch type to be forced to decide it must attack to save itself?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    common knowledge russia seeks all old countries it had as part of its growing empire. now it has oil.ga etc reserves it an use for economic gain to bully rest of world etc.

    bear in mind all peoples ( re Argentina and Falkands . Spain, Basque country etc ) desire more power and land . it appeals to our sense of belong to a powerful and successful nation etc.

    hence any dictator or government will always attempt to use such means as a lever for control. Putin is simply another example.

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