OOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh.
More SANCTIONS!!!! How HORRIBLE!!!!! I can hear Putin’s knee’s knocking already!!!! (Or is that his laughter?)
Cameron’s threat sounds very Obamaesque.
These people need to get their lies straight. Putin is arming separatists. Is this worse than Obama arming Mexican gangs, Syria and Libya rebels? Obama has helped overthrow leaders of countries. If Syrian rebels had shot down a passenger plane would the UK be calling for sanctions against the United States?
My sense is that we covertly agitated in the western Ukraine to get the legitimately elected president removed and who knows what else?
There is plenty of blame to go around and why can't we mind our own business? Normally it doesn't seem very smart to provoke nations that can really hurt us with nukes and advanced weaponry. I wish I felt there were cooler heads prevailing in Washington.
In fact he has threatened Putin with a “good bitch slapping” if they ever happen to meet and Putin is on his death bed.
The only way these remarks from the highest levels of the United Kingdom might hurt Vladimir Putin is if he dies laughing at them.
While the U.S. is a strong country whose president has, unfortunately, chosen to respond to foreign crises by acting like a mouse, Britain really IS a mouse.
Not only has Britain no power to hurt Russia, Vladimir Putin could bring Britain’s economy to its knees in about five minutes by requiring Russia’s billionaire oligarchs residing in the U.K. to transfer their enormous bank accounts out of Britain and into Russian banks.
Britain’s prime minister really should try to keep his foolish saber-rattling thoughts to himself or the world might lose confidence in him, causing the British pound to collapse even without Putin’s direct efforts.
‘This is the vapour path of the rocket which hit the Boeing,’ insisted Ukrainian intelligence chief Vitaliy Naida.
Two days earlier, Snizhne itself was hit by missiles from what the rebels say was a Ukrainian warplane in an attack that shattered homes, killing 11 people.
It is understood the rocket that downed the jet on Thursday was fired from a BUK launcher, a sophisticated surface-to-air missile system requiring months of training to use.
Jonathan Eyal, of the UK defence and security forum the Royal United Services Institute, said: ‘They [the rebels] could not have used this system without direct Russian involvement.’
Yesterday the Ukrainian government said it had proof that Russia had supplied the rocket launcher.
It said three of the devices crossed the border into Russia on Friday, less than ten hours after the jet was blown apart.
Discussing the picture, Dr Eyal said: ‘The smoke trail is consistent with the trail that would be produced by a BUK missile ten seconds after launch, perhaps a little less.