No question that Putin took advantage of the turmoil in the Ukraine (started by Ukrainian activists funded by Soros) to grab Crimea. Crimea used to be Russian until it was given to Ukraine at a time with Russia was too weak to object, and it’s their only direct access to southern waters). But I don’t see any reason whatever why Putin would have engineered shooting down this plane.
Putin is a victim of the shortage of good little militants that obey orders and call first before blowing things out not the sky.
OH vell.
I agree that Putin likely did not order THAT plane shot down. I stand by everything I said in my post to you.
Previously, it had been a part of the Russian Soviet Republic. During the 1930's, Stalin had the ethnic Turks and Tatars from the Crimea exiled to central Asia and they were replaced by ethnic Russians. The Crimea had been conquered by Czarist Russia in the early eighteenth century.