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?
No he is not stupid. He is, however, IMHO a megalomaniac who does anything that he thinks is right and killing foreigners is one of those things.
One of the NZ papers had a report yesterday that he has lost the support of the Russian Parliament, but that won't stop him.