I do. It was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine on 17 July 2014.
That means this incident happened during the Obama-Biden administration.
Of course, this was lost and most of the coverage of the low level fighting in the Donbass was not mentioned. Not even during Donald Trump’s impeachment, but Biden’s taking bribes has never been mentioned.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday there was no blackmail involved during a telephone call with President Donald Trump that has since set in motion an impeachment inquiry.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-says-there-was-no-blackmail-in-trump-call.html
Yeah, of course, I am pissed. The US didn’t give a shit about
Ukraine, and probably wouldn’t if Putin hadn’t threatened to use nukes.
But, my real problem are people in the US who want to bring up partisan US politics instead of serious issues: US election reform, Energy Independence, Why Putin was able to be in the position he was to start this.
I do not believe Putin would have dreamed of this incursion if he knew there would be a unified response from the west, but he knew that wouldn’t be the case. And he didn’t need to fix the US election: they are rigged enough as is.
Part of me wants to do a post on “Could Russiagate have led to the Ukraine invasion?”, but I don’t want to be partisan. Especially since both US parties are pretty much the same to me. And both were culpable in creating this situation.
But the bottom line is that most people couldn’t find Ukraine on a map and have no fucking idea what has been going on there. I have a much better knowlege than the average American. Europeans are a little more informed since they lived through the wars.
The US is its own planet. And it needs to leave its politics at home to deal with this situation.
