MH17 flight down in Ukraine

Please point out where I said ALL the blame should be put on the western governments, merely pointing out that the majority in the west seem incapable of looking at the larger picture, in many respects I hope Ukraine is completely wiped off the map just for the "history is written by the victors" crap.

You don't need a civilian airliner taking out to be able to say that the logical thing for the Ukrainian "government" to do is to find and take out the Buk(s).

Well they pulled the ****ing trigger...thus it is entirely there fault.

not that hard mate.





Sorry Captain, but you've missed the point. I'll put it into fool proof, short and simple points:

It is a civil war

During wars when one side (the rebels) have an advantage (Buks) the opposition will try to remove that advantage.

However, funnily enough, the rebels won't take to kindly to losing that advantage and thus will usually do all that is necessary to protect that advantage.

Thus it is not always as simple as...

Warrior 1 - "oh ****, they have Buks and can take out our aircraft"
Warrior 2 - "oh sufferin succotash...you're right!"
Warrior 3- "Not to fear my fellow warriors...we'll just dander deep into rebel held territory and destory them"
Warrior -1 "Oh golly...thankfully you are here, I'd never have thought of that marvelous idea"
Warrior - 2 "Well lets get a move on lads, if we James is having tea ready by 6, and you know how he gets when we aren't on time"
"My my, you're right, lets gear up now so we are back before 6"

How so when it points out a fatal flaw in your argument, ie, you're arguing that it is impossible to track because nobody was looking at it when it was stolen

You don't need a civilian airliner taking out to be able to say that the logical thing for the Ukrainian "government" to do is to find and take out the Buk(s).

Fine then, please find for me where in international law it says that it is illegal to attack the weapons of your opposition.

A better analogy still would be if I broke into my neighbours house and broke into their gun locker and stole their gun and went on to shoot you. Are they responsible if they don't report the crime?

As stated to Dave, I didn't know we still lived in a day and age where the only way to launch an attack is via the ground.

Ok then Captain...what would you have done?

Not that it matters...it it was possible to take them out...they would have done...but they didn't, thus it isn't possible.

They likely weren't even aware they had them, otherwise I doubt they;d have been flying a transport plane over their territory the day before the rebels decided to murder a bunch of civilians.

As expressed above, try to determine where the weapons went and launch an attack, you do know that Ukraine has an Air Force, and before you say "oh, they will just fire the Buk at yiou" consider this. If you believe they have it at a certain place, send in a recon flight, if they don't fire and you can get a good look you can then either use a Surface to Surface or Air to Surface missile to hit the target. If they target you, well, you know for certain it's there and I should hope that the planes have countermeasures, and all they need is the ability to get about 60Km away without being taken out, at that point the max speed difference between the SU 27 and missile the Buk uses is too small to catch up before you're too far away. But, there is almost certainly a way to find and destroy the targets, and if I were the Ukrainian "government" it would be INCREDIBLY high on the priorities list.


Not necessarily true, just because something is possible doesn't mean it happens. Unrelated example to demonstrate the point: how many things in mathematics still go without a proof. Is that because it's impossible to prove? In some cases, yes, in all cases, no. Just because something wasn't done doesn't mean it was impossible.


I should hope they know what hardware they have at which base, and when a base has been taken over. If they know both of the above, should they not be finding out what hardware was procured. If the base isn't overrun and merely broken into, skirmish, run away with hardware, then they KNOW what has been taken.

I think you're confused. I was pointing out a fatal flaw in your argument, which was your assumption that there was a high resolution surveillance satellite watching this particular airbase when the missile system was taken. I really don't understand how you've come to the conclusion that this is a flaw in my argument. More mental gymnastics I suspect.

It's easy to say that sat behind a computer with absolutely no consideration for what that would actually entail or if it would have even been possible.

It's not. Its illegal to guess that weapons might be someone and bomb the hell out of that area in an attempt to destroy them. You have to have solid evidence that the weapons are actually there.

A better analogy would be the same as yours but your neighbours were on holiday in Spain at the time. This is getting a little daft, don't you think?

Maths is maths...war is war...unrelated and unparalleled...analogy denied.

Who said it was taken from a Ukrainian base?

Your argument goes like this "Nothing was looking at it at the time, so there is no way of working out where they went", but by extension, this is true for ALL tracking, which would mean that trackers are lying, which is clearly not the case.

As sat to Et Tu, Brute?, to say it is impossible is almost certainly a lie, if you want to do something you will find a way to do it, especially when it is possible.

But that's not what you said, and "solid" evidence is subjective and will only come under scrutiny after the event if things go tits up.

I fail to see the necessity for "on holiday in Spain", care to explain?

posted earlier in the thread, and whether from a base or not, supposing it to be from Ukrainian sources you still have to question how they didn't notice missing hardware.

who says it is from a Ukranian source? And you are saying the government let them shoot the plane down... why? Sure the rebels would get international condemnation if they shot down a civilian flight, but that is a big if. If instead they had actually shot down a troop transport the world wouldn't even have blinked, and it doesn't seem sensible to let allow the rebels to hang on to the rockets on the off chance they commit a war crime.

If you're going to refuse an analogy showing just how shoddy the logic is, please explain how something not happening makes it impossible. Does this mean because in WWII Hitler failed to take Moscow it was impossible, because it was most certainly possible, he just made fatal flaws earlier in the campaign.


I recall a link being posted earlier in the thread, and whether from a base or not, supposing it to be from Ukrainian sources you still have to question how they didn't notice missing hardware.

What of the rest of the post, or is the best you can come up with?

So you've gone from assuming that Ukraine had a high resolution tracking satellite (that they probably don't even have) looking directly at this one particular military base at the exact time the separatists attacked to assuming that they have some form of tracking system attacked to the BUK? This argument makes no more sense and is quite clearly another example of your faulty logic and not a flaw in my argument, as my argument is just to point out the flaws in yours.

So you're still going with the completely baseless assumption that the Ukrainian's had a way of tracking, finding and eliminating the missile system but for some unknown decided not to? You're argument is riddled with holes and makes no sense whatsoever.

Yes it is, blowing up areas in the hope that there is a weapons system there is a war crime.

Because there is no evidence or logical reason to believe the Ukrainians could have done much about it once it was taken.

That's the whole point of the argument, there is no good reason why the "government" would let the separatists keep hold of it since it would pose a direct threat to their own men. There is no good reason to believe they didn't know they had it and there is no good reason to believe that they had no leads after the two weeks since it was believed to have been taken from some Ukrainian facility.

I didn't bother with you're stupid analogy because it was just that...stupid.

In math, someone can spend a life time trying to solve a problem and not get it, but they tried. In a civil war like this, one force can try to defeat another force and fail.

Regardless, your point is still as ridiculous now as it was when I first read it. Even if they were aware they had Buks, it wasn't their fault...to blame Ukraine is stupid.

I suppose it was the British governments fault that the IRA was able to bomb GB? Afterall the government were aware they has the explosives and means to do it, why didn't they stop them? Oh wait...they probably tried :/

Are you trolling or just that incapable of remembering a point from one post to the next?
You acknowledge that the Americans are almost certainly assisting the "government", yes?
You also acknowledge that the Americans do posses orbiting hardware with the necessary capabilities, yes?
you acknowledge that it is not necessary to observe an event to know it happened, yes?
If the answer to all three is yes, then I don't see why you're arguing.
If the answer to the third or second is no...I can't really put it into words.
If the answer to the first is no, Why?

Tracking and finding come under the same thing, and to say that there is no way to do so is foolish, I doubt the separatists are that thorough. Eliminating, if you've found it there are 1001 ways to eliminate it, so there is no issue there.

What, so you think the only way they could do it is carpet bombing?

Is that not the whole point of the debate? That they couldn't have done anything is completely false, as you have already practically said, carpet bombing the entirety of rebel held land would definitely work.

You are right why didn't they just take back the launcher?

In fact, why don't they just defeat the rebels while they are at it! That would be the obvious thing to do right?

If they were in the position to easily take back the launcher, they would probably do a bit better fighting them wouldn't they? But I will bite, why do you think they "let" them keep hold of the missiles? They knew the separatists would shoot down a civilian flight rather than their own planes?

Is everybody on this forum incapable of grasping the concept that we now fight wars on more than just the ground, because every single person to refute the argument has initially ruled out the possibility of an attack via the air to destroy the system.

It's not necessarily a case of letting it survive as much as doing insufficient to remove the issue, and what exactly has the Ukrainian "government" done? They have superior manpower and hardware yet seem incapable of getting very far, almost as if they're intentionally not doing a great deal, but that's another matter and I suppose it could also be said of Syria.

I'm not trolling, it's just that your argument doesn't make any sense.

How exactly do you think the U.S. are assisting Ukraine, Satellite surveillance as you mentioned earlier? Even the U.S. don't have the equipment to put blanket satellite surveillance over Ukraine at the resolution required, the chances of this base being randomly monitored by chance is so slim it's not even worth considering.

And what's this nonsense about observing an event you keep going on about? To track something then yes you either need to observe it directly or indirectly.

So how exactly were the Ukrainians meant to find the missile system, even assuming assistance from the U.S.? This is something that is absolutely critical to your argument yet you cannot answer this simple question.

Once again, you have failed to give any answers to questions that are vital to your argument.

Well you still haven't told me how they are finding the system so we have no idea how accurately they would be able to pin point its location. You're trying to make it sound like the government could just load up google maps and pin point its location but decided not to.

I'm now convinced you're a troll.