01-19-2020, 11:04 AM
Just realized I wrote "political fourplay" in my post upthread. That was meant to be "political foul play". Gutter mind, I guess.Anyway, I still haven't seen anything indicating that the Iranian take down of a Ukrainian passenger plane was anything other than an error, likely due to paranoia over heightened tensions.
At least Iran's President has apologized for the military's seriously fucked up and tragic mistake, and the Iranian people were pissed off enough about their government's delay in accepting responsibility to take to the streets in droves.
When Russian military occupying eastern Ukraine shot down a Malaysian passenger flight in 2014 (which I also believe was likely an error due to heightened tensions)............there was no acceptance of responsibility or apology from the Russian government and they continue to deny it to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_A..._Flight_17