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originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
a reply to: GargIndia
Kind of laughable pointing out the "naked involvement of USA in Ukrainian affairs" when there's a Russia-backed rebellion going on......
all countries have some "involvement in the affairs" of others - what was Putin's $15 billion bribe not to go into the EU if not "naked involvement"??
The rebellion was in Kiev, which resulted in civil war.
You must learn a little English. There is a difference in "rebellion" and "civil war".
originally posted by: GargIndia
Some posters thinks that USA will destroy Russia.
I see Russian empire surviving the next great war while I do not see USA surviving this war.
The sanctions will only make Russia stronger militarily.
Only fools blabber about power.
The real strong are always realist.
Putin has given a direction to Russia. This is the direction Russia will take.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: GargIndia
If you read and understood history you would have noted Crimea was given to Ukraine by the Soviet Premier in the mid 1950's. The territory belongs to Ukraine. If we go further back to Catherine the Great you would notice that prior to Russia conquering the area it belonged to the Ottoman Empire / Turkey.
You would also have learned that Stalin did his best to remove / exterminate the Tartars.. Just as Stalin did to the german citizens living in sovereign German land russia calls kaliningrad.
Besides, the reason russian invaded was to protect ethnic Russians right? You know, those ethnic russians that are somehow more important than ethnic russians in the south and east of Ukraine.
If we use your logic then Russia should have no issues giving Kaliningrad back to the GErmans.
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and experts from Malaysia want to continue searching a debris field spanning several miles for human remains. "There's a lot of heavy debris still out there," spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said, "and we're not quite sure what could be underneath."
Sergey Bochkovskiy, the head of Ukraine's State Emergency Services, said Thursday that "terrorists" cut off access to the area after the train carrying remains from the crash site to Kharkiv left the crash site.
originally posted by: Ploutonas
I am not sure if its posted already, but russian government released a video with the buk missile that destroyed the airplane... You can see it all.
link
Its very clear what happened, now that the boeing story is over, the KIEV government fall... they go for ellections! They didnt make it.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: flibblebee
And it's concentrated. It has to be above a certain concentration to burn. When the wings break open, the fuel isn't going to sit there in some cloud, magically burning. It's going to disperse and drop below that concentration required to burn, and it's not going to burn.
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
a reply to: spy66
You simply do not know that the missile (assuming....) did that much damage to the wings.
Given the Russian radar plots and the analysis of the wreckage positions on the ground as per the diagram below it looks like he wings kept flying for a while - so they were probably not damaged enough to disintegrate from the impact - perhaps the fuel tanks weren't actually hit at all... that will have to be determined from examination of the wreckage - if at all.
from here - the trajectory analysis how the front end of the aircraft (cockpit & business) might have detached to fall several kilometers from the "main" wreckage site - consistent with the front end being he "2nd aircraft" on the Russian radar plot.
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
a reply to: spy66
The illustration is indicative only - they obviously have not done an impact analysis from the wreckage!!
originally posted by: fatdeeman
This plane in two parts theory in one of those things that can be interpreted different ways. On the one hand a separated section of the plane showing up separately on the radar makes a lot of sense, more sense than a su 25 being sent to shoot down a 777 but on the other hand I would have expected it to have a different radar characteristic to a su 25 but again I'm not qualified to make that call.