With regards to a nuclear assault, not a chance. The minute Russia even reached for one the yanks would absolutely level the entire country. The US military reserve weapon cache that their tactical strike units have at their disposal would be enough to take on a 'rest of the world' military. Russia, China, it's all majorly exaggerated they simply couldn't compete unless the 'war' went to ground.
Russian soldiers would never pull the trigger on a nuclear assault either not for Putin or anybody, unless they were retaliating against a nuclear assault on themselves, they're not that stupid.
This flight blowing up, it looks like pre-meditated terrorist activity in an area that they were guaranteed to succeed given the lack of any kind of authoritative security in the area.
This will blow over because the target was not of a significant interest to the victim airline's nation. Had it been a Chinese/Russian/US plane I'd expect a bit of a fallout but not the Malays.
Russian soldiers would never pull the trigger on a nuclear assault either not for Putin or anybody, unless they were retaliating against a nuclear assault on themselves, they're not that stupid.
This flight blowing up, it looks like pre-meditated terrorist activity in an area that they were guaranteed to succeed given the lack of any kind of authoritative security in the area.
This will blow over because the target was not of a significant interest to the victim airline's nation. Had it been a Chinese/Russian/US plane I'd expect a bit of a fallout but not the Malays.
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I'll avoid the 'mainstream news media' (and most TV) and generally 'the news' whenever I can, if I really want to find out about something that's relevant to me- then I'll use as many sites and get diverse opinions and commentary to make my own mind up.