Ukraine Always Get What You Want

False flag missile from Estonia?

ADD: I was close. LOL

 

An argument from the time-honored IR principle of "sometimes shit happens":

 

The United States has had its "sorry about that, chief" moments as well.

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board were killed.

 

Missile That Hit Poland Likely Launched by Ukraine in Air Defense, Western Officials Say

 

So we need not remember the Maine after all?

 

How are the peace talks going?

 

Everyone’s forgotten about the Russian missile that took down the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine c. 2016. The first time Russian-backed rebels were blamed. NATO needs to thread the needle and make a strong statement without provoking all-out war.

 

I could imagine a few Ukrainian missiles (and maybe even a Russian one or two) may have crossed the border inadvertently, but landed in empty farmland or forest and not on somebody's farmhouse.

Gotta wonder, though, does Russia see this reaction and decide to push the envelope?

 

#ZelenskyWarCriminal is now trending on Twitter, which means that Vlad has sent out his trolling orders for the day. Or maybe it’s not trending and Elon decided that it belongs on the trending list.

 

Tangentially related: this would be an excellent moment for whatever editors and producers are left to stop outsourcing their news judgement to third party social media algorithms they will never understand.