re: #145 Dr Lizardo

If I understand that correctly, the BUK-M behind the shootdown was crewed by Russian military itself.

It had a crew, and ostensibly came from Russia. I wouldn’t read too much into the level of training the crew was given or assume they were active duty military. For one thing they apparently missed the fact they were shooting at a plane carrying a commercial, civilian transponder that showed no indication of landing inside Ukrainian territory. I don’t know jack shit about how BUK systems work, but it’d be a pretty glaring oversight for them not to be able to read and display civil aviation transponder codes. It’s not like that shit is designed to be at all cryptic or obscure.

Whoever was manning that battery was all clown shoes.