PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Of Ukraine, Russia and QF9
View Single Post
Old 27th Feb 2022, 10:17
  #35 (permalink)  
SOPS
short flights long nights
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Posts: 3,884
Received 157 Likes on 50 Posts
Originally Posted by Icarus2001
Putin is not stupid. What possible motivation is there for him to shoot down a civilian airliner? What does he gain?


The PR benefit? Does that mean the EU will stop buying the Russian gas? No I did not think so. which means...virtue signaling. The new scourge of the western world.
It is partly what got us here, instead of spending time worrying about which comedian is telling unacceptable jokes and what pro noun to use, we should have been anticipating this.
Putin put 30,000 troops on the border nearly a year ago.
.

Very well said. Too many people running around worrying about which person to cancel next.
SOPS is online now