Comment Putin wants to clean his image from his FAIL (Score 1) 340
They made a video a few months ago saying that they shot with the cannons not with a missile.
they even went to such lengths as to have a couple of fighters shoot at targets on the ground to make a documentary of sorts.
The aims are double: First and most important is rallying the Russians under Putin's flag and show them that it's all the fault of the Evil NATO. And the second is to try to create an atmosphere of doubt around the investigations giving their loving audience something in the West to delight themselves.
The reason for the first thing is that the whole MH17 issue was seen as a mayor fuck up of Putin's regime, no matter if it were the Russian separatists or the Russian Army themselves who fired the missile: It was an act of utter idiocy and this is something that Putin cannot tolerate. If you start looking like an idiot in front of your own people you may end up in the exile somewhere in the Barbados.
And regarding the second point: Mr Putin has a very eager fan base in the USA and here in Europe. In the USA it's all the teabaggers and conspiracy theorists who will believe anything as long as it makes Obama look bad, no matter what. Most of them believe in the literal intepretation of the Bible anyway.
Here in Europe the fan base is composed of all these "Eurosceptics" parties like UKIP or our dear and beloved Geert Wilders who always has had a warm heart for Mr Putin with his PVV who are making all sort of freakish questions to our Parliament such as a motion to protect peanut butter (Not a fucking joke!). Very interesting that such an incident who would make any nationalistic populist wet his undies hasn't even made Mr Wilders raise a single brow. He has just not even given a signal that the noticed anything... while here in my hometown, Hilversum, it was just last Monday that the examination of the bodies finished and a long funeral caravan went in direction to the towns of the victims. Four of them will remain here.
