Quote:It's not one of their own planes. 

 

There have been more than 2 dozen planes shot down recently in that region by the Russian backed rebels.  Best case scenario, they fired on the airliner thinking it was a Ukrainian military jet.  Worst case, they didn't care about anything other than the fact that it was in their airspace. 

 

that was 2 military planes they shot down in that area, Ukrainian military planes. What purpose would the Russian backed rebels who haven't made it a practice of targeting civilians (not taking sides for the record) have to shoot down a civilian plane.

 

Also this plane was traveling at 10,000 Kilometers, you don't "accidentally" hit a plane at 10,000 Kilometers, the tech needed to make that strick is complicated and it takes someone knowing how to operate it to even find the target.

 

There's plenty of benefit for Russia to take down military planes, ZERO benefit taking down a civilian plane it would actually be counter-productive, again the only one that would benefit would be Ukraine. It would be Ukraine hope that after this "tragedy" the US and UN would take their side officially rather then remaining neutral and out of the conflict.

 

The only way you can really pin it on Russian rebels was if you buy one of two arguments, they intended to take down a civilian target or they accidentally hit the civilian target, neither of which I see as plausible. Not saying Ukraine did it either, just that I'm not sure I buy the official narrative everyone so quick to jump on right now.

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