We admitted it immediately, allowed the Iranians access to the wreckage and the bodies, assisted in the recovery, and paid reparations to the airline and the families.
Do you expect any of that from Putin???
We admitted it immediately, allowed the Iranians access to the wreckage and the bodies, assisted in the recovery, and paid reparations to the airline and the families.
Do you expect any of that from Putin???
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No we behaved like Americans. He behaves like Russians. Big difference.
No I expect Putin to deny deny unless he gets backed into a corner and it comes down to the lessser of a bunch of evils for him. We have to find out just what kind of missile shot down that plane though, seems obvious but things aren't always what they seem and we wouldn't necessarily be told.
I don't know what he'll do. He's not somebody that is easy to read. I see him trying to look pious lighting a candle in a Russian church, then divorcing his wife for a younger chick and the excuse it wasn't a church wedding. The wife "didn't like to fly." OTOH he handled a ccouple crises about as well as I could hope under the circumstances, the theater with the black widows wearing bombs and the Beslan school tragedy.
I guess I will register my disappointment that maybe we had a chance to get along better and blew it. He did try to tip us off about those bombers and I don't know exactly what words were exchanged, but my impression was we arrogantly ignored him and were unappreciative.
I don't like him in photos with no shirt doing things you'd ordinarily keep your shirt on unlike swimming or water sports. He's vain, proud of his physique, doesn't look attractive to me.
Seems silly, but I miss the gentle manners of the last czar even though they say he was a bad leader. Such beauty and grace, there is no modern comparison in any royal court today imo.