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There's still a lot of flights through Russian territory.
Korean 007 could have been intentional (I believe the pilot involved still claims it was a military plane) but Hanlon's razor still applies here. They're firing a lot of SAMs at many targets without good controls.
The US is barely better; they shot down one (nearly two) of their own fighters about a week ago and then there's the Vincennes incident.
Hanlon's razor does not apply when politics are involved. Especially with Russia, since we know their military is full of murderous assholes.
Really digging with the “US is barely better” by going back to 1988…
This fighter jet incident last month was definitely an unexpected incident, but a far cry from shooting a civilian aircraft out of either our own airspace, or a surrounding sovereign country’s airspace.
This whataboutism is hilarious if not so misguided simply for trying to say “America bad too.”
Honestly, why even bring up the US? It’s not like as if these stories have to do with us…
They could have mentioned Ukrainian Airlines 752 which is far more topical albeit tangentially related
Then there was that Iranian passenger jet destroyed by the USA navy; killing more than all the downed jets by Russia this decade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Not to mention the utter contempt of life by the USA Air Force in any year.
I’m not saying the USA is terrible in general, but it’s really easy to find counter example of callous unfeeling behavior, something all large aggressive countries share more or less equally
You’ve mentioned the same thing as the original comment.
What does the US have to do with this story? Why are we bringing up something from 36 years ago when I can go online and find like 5 different stories on planes Russia has shot out of the sky in the last like 10 years? You’re giving their shitty shoot first and don’t say shit later policy a pass by bringing up a geo-political rival that adds nothing to the conversation.
Because the thread was talking about that, and I accidentally posted in the wrong community. I normally block this due to its outrageous USA bias, yucky patriotism, narrow focus, outrageous mods, etc.
I’ll see myself out now.. and will block world again after I deleted my block list