Originally Posted by
mini
Regardless of the lack of a definitive detailed account of what actually happened, I can't help thinking that this was a clumsy, ill thought through solo run by Belarus.
I'd expect Putin is furious about this incident, it threatens his strategy regarding allied states buffering his borders and indirectly drags him into an international s**t storm.
I'm glad this mess is not in my in tray.
Quite the opposite, this is exactly how Putin likes it. The buffer states take the s**t storm (as if the EU would ever act against Russia as they should) while all Russian dissidents are warned should they not have gotten the message the Scripal or Navalny ‘incidents’ send, and Russians get the confirmation they ‘need strong man Putin’ or they end up in the same chaos... We should also not forget MH17 and al the Russian bs surrounding it...