Apparently Only Russia Shoots Airliners

Russophobes were in an overdrive over the past few days. Russia has shot down by accident an Azerbaijani airliner over Grozny. Grozny has been the victim of Ukrainian drone strikes over the last few days, and this airplane seems to have been caught in the fire. According to information, Putin has already apologized to Aliev over what has happened.

Lipavský on Twitter has made a chronological sequence of 1983, 2014, 2024. In 1983, the Soviet Air Force destroyed a Korean Airliner which has flown off course into the Soviet Airspace. The plane hasn’t responded to Soviet signals and was destroyed by a fighter jet. In 2014, allegedly the Donbas separatists have downed a Malaysian airliner using SA missile. Although, there are many indications that the whole thing was arranged, even to the point of downing the plane by the Ukrainians to frame the separatists and force the EU to enact sanctions against Russia, and thus put pressure on the separatists. I actually believe that Western intelligence services were involved in this.

What all these instances have in common is they were used by anti-Russian forces for moral grand standing, and preachy addresses towards the Evil Empire. Although, I must say the 2024 instance did not pan out as planned for them. Apart from imbeciles like the Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, no leader seems to have had much to say. One should mention however that these events, where a fighting force downs a civilian airliner are by far not exclusive to the Russians.