Discussion: Ukraine Copter Shot Down, 14 Dead

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No, the Russians aren’t behind any of this. All civilian uprisings have easy access to portable air defense missiles.

(It’s only a matter of time before Cliven Bundy turns one of his howitzers on a BLM truck.)

“Still, fighters from Russia, including from the battled-hardened region of Chechnya, have been appearing recently in the ranks of the separatists.”

Why would Chechnyans be fighting for pro-Russian sepratists?

I don’t read it that way. They’re not Chechyans - they’re Russians who have been fighting the Chechnyan separatists.

So that means it’s okay for us to support Kiev moving militarily against its own citizens in the East? By that kind of reasoning, Assad has the right to kill as many of his “terrorists” as he wants since we support them.

It’s believed these are Chechens loyal to Ramzan Kadyrov, who is on Putin’s payroll. They were bussed in from Chechnya.

Are you suggesting that if a group of armed people seized LaGuardia Airport, it would not be permissible for the U.S. to use force to regain control of it? Really?