Russians Shoot Down Passenger Jet

The initial report is a Russian fighter jet shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine.

If so, this is a tragic loss of life over a warzone, and if deliberate is not just an act of war but a war crime.

Asked for his response, the current American president stated: "I'm not sure an actual tragedy has occurred." Yah know... even Jimmy Carter, the previous standard of presidential incompetence, had more decency to him than that. If the current guy actually said that, why is there pushback on impeachment?

A later report claims that a surface to air missile controlled by the Russian Separatists in Ukraine shot down the passenger jet. This is important, and not confirmed, because the Russian separatists have insisted over and over they didn't have the anti-aircraft missiles, that they never did, so its possible someone else, say the Russian Military forces across the border, or possibly the Ukraine loyalists, did. We don't know. We know that flying aircraft over Russian Airspace is asking to be shot down. That Russia is unstable. That its govt is unstable. That its weapons are sort of out of control, and who knows who is firing them off, or what they're aiming at. We know that Putin used special forces demolitions experts to bomb apartment buildings in Moscow to gain a political excuse to attack Chechnya and Soviet Georgia, and massacre Ossetia. All they had to do was kill a few thousand people in the apartment buildings in Moscow. And that's fine, right? Good communists! Loyal, dying apartments collapsing communists are glad to die so Putin can kill even more, and seize territory, right?

So the claims in Ukraine? Wait and see what the truth turns out to be. It might be Russian missiles, fired by Russians, sneaking across the border. The Separatists might get blamed in order to end the border war before the Russian Formula 1 race coming up in the next few months, since that would affect revenues for tourism, and cancelling the race would hurt Russia's reputation. The Russians really don't want the world investors dumping their stocks, but you'd be a FOOL to own any investments in Russia. Putin is nuts, or pretending to be. Either way, the result is instability, and that's bad for investing.

Update: Apparently, the separatists have enough control of anti-aircraft missiles that not only have they shot down a passenger plane, they've shot down a Ukraine air force jet. It is likely that the Russians (Putin) is supplying the weapons, and its known that Putin provided the training for the separatists to operate anti-aircraft missiles. So the real question here is: should Ukraine and much of surrounding Russia be considered a No Fly Zone?