07-21-2014, 10:02 AM
I heard your friend's theory floated by separatists a few days ago, rams.
I don't think it's realistic because, despite his weak denials to the contrary, I think Putin knows exactly what is happening at the Eastern Ukraine / Russian border in Donetsk and has known since the get go. His denials to the contrary are falling apart as it become clearer that Russia supplied the missile and based on the content of security recordings of a separatist leader to Russian military after the crash.
And, there's no question whatsoever that Putin was aware of downed Ukraine cargo planes in the area in the days leading up to the downing of MH17. I agree with Duchess that he wouldn't have put himself in a position to be taken down purposely by retaliatory Ukraine military or accidentally by separatists. But, that's not the most far-out conspiracy theory that I've seen featured in the media.
![[Image: n-STRELKOV-large570.jpg]](http://i0.huffpost.com/gen/1920048/thumbs/n-STRELKOV-large570.jpg)
The guy in the picture above, left, is Igor Girkin. He's the Military Chief of the Donetsk People's Republic. The self-proclaimed Prime Minister of that separatist group is on the right, Alexander Boroda.
Girkin, also known as Strelkov and allegedly a former Russian military intelligence agent, claimed that he was told by people at the crash site that a significant number of the bodies weren't fresh and that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition. He was floating the story that dead bodies had been put aboard the commercial plane in some plot by the Ukrainian government and then shot down by the Ukrainian military so as to frame the separatists. Nuts.
I don't think it's realistic because, despite his weak denials to the contrary, I think Putin knows exactly what is happening at the Eastern Ukraine / Russian border in Donetsk and has known since the get go. His denials to the contrary are falling apart as it become clearer that Russia supplied the missile and based on the content of security recordings of a separatist leader to Russian military after the crash.
And, there's no question whatsoever that Putin was aware of downed Ukraine cargo planes in the area in the days leading up to the downing of MH17. I agree with Duchess that he wouldn't have put himself in a position to be taken down purposely by retaliatory Ukraine military or accidentally by separatists. But, that's not the most far-out conspiracy theory that I've seen featured in the media.
The guy in the picture above, left, is Igor Girkin. He's the Military Chief of the Donetsk People's Republic. The self-proclaimed Prime Minister of that separatist group is on the right, Alexander Boroda.
Girkin, also known as Strelkov and allegedly a former Russian military intelligence agent, claimed that he was told by people at the crash site that a significant number of the bodies weren't fresh and that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition. He was floating the story that dead bodies had been put aboard the commercial plane in some plot by the Ukrainian government and then shot down by the Ukrainian military so as to frame the separatists. Nuts.