r/worldnews • u/DomesticErrorist22 • 1d ago

Preliminary investigation confirms Russian missile caused Azerbaijan Airlines crash Russia/Ukraine

https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/26/exclusive-preliminary-investigation-confirms-russian-missile-over-grozny-caused-aktau-cras
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u/withpatience 1d ago

How is shooting down a civilian passenger jet a show of power?

At best it's incompetence, at worse, malice.

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u/Homersarmy41 1d ago

Because they have no consequences. Thats the power. Nobody but Ukraine is going to hit them back and its somehow a debate on whether we should support Ukraine or not.

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u/ChauvinistPenguin 1d ago

Their own citizens were on the flight - could you imagine if the military of a western country downed a plane? There'd be protests for weeks.

Will the Russians protest? I doubt it.

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u/No-Pilot-8870 1d ago

That's another show of power is it not? People that are fully subjugated.