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DrScientistyesterday at 12:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not sure how MH17 shooting is relevant here.

While the consensus is that it's likely a Russia controlled/allied battery shot it down - I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident, not an intentional act of sabotage.


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account42yesterday at 3:17 PM

If it was a Russian weapon (which is the most likely explanation) then it was the result of them meddling where they shouldn't be - either by supplying separatists with military equipment or by being there themselves, i.e. a part of their ongoing expansionist campaign in Ukraine.

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mcphageyesterday at 3:05 PM

> I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident

How do you accidentally shoot down a passenger airplane?

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