I occasionally visit a blog site, moonofalabama.org, which buys fully into the Russian point of view: the Kiev government is a fascist junta and a western puppet, Putin is a force for stability and self-determination in the region, etc.

And they are tossing around the theories debunked here as the only possible acceptable variants.

So my theory - one that ought to be acceptable to both sides - is that the plane shot itself down. It was depressed and committed suicide. Overwork, metal fatigue and general systems failure led it to end its service life right there over the Eastern Ukraine.

See? Nobody has to shoulder the blame, each side can continue to be the heroes and their respective opponents can continue to be brutal liars and thugs.