Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "'Russian air defence system' downed Azerbaijan Airlines plane" video.

  1. Not just denial, but puerile lies, too.
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  2. Explain why Russia, if innocent, would come up with coarse lies about a bird strike and non-existent fog.
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  3. They're in crisis management mode (read: panicky).
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  4.  @hourbee5535  Assad's Syria used Russian kit, too, to shoot down a Russian maritime patrol aircraft in 2018.
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  5.  @youjustreadthis897  "[The] investigation was delegated to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and the Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT), which in 2016 reported that the aircraft had been downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. [...] The JIT found that the Buk originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation [...] and had been transported from Russia on the day of the crash, fired from a field in a rebel-controlled area, and that the launch system returned to Russia afterwards. [...] On 17 November 2022, following a trial in absentia in the Netherlands, two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist were found guilty of murdering all 298 people on board flight MH17. The Dutch court also ruled that Russia was in control of the separatist forces fighting in eastern Ukraine at the time. [...]"
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  6. Russia can't afford to make more enemies. It's up to its neck in trouble on account of Ukraine.
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