Killarney:
Please spare us the almost unbelievable calloused indifference!
Cheap theatrics?
How dare you!
Rhrosty.

Yes, Rhrosty, cheap theatrics! Airline disaster porn to score equally cheap political points, based on cheap accounts of 'incontrovertible evidence' gained from hopelessly one-sided propaganda.

I suppose you'd believe stories about Putin eating babies, if the Western media printed it.

And on other threads you happily spruik for Israel's slaughter of Gazans, with equal disregard for evidence.

Two can play that game. Would you like me give you a melodramatic account of Gazan mothers hugging their babies, with whatever limbs they have left, while they choke to death under a ton of rubble after their home is hit by an Israeli missile because a terrorist tunnel digger might be somewhere in the neighbourhood?

Would you like some more gory stories like that? I got dozens of 'em.

Another important question to ask is what possible benefit would, or could, accrue to Russia as a result of committing such a public and reprehensible act? There is none. And it's not as if they could think they might "get away with it".
On the other hand, asking the same question of the western powers, and the benefits are readily apparent. Russia is demonised and further isolated among the community of nations - that's happening now. NATO gets to move its forces closer to Russia's western border - I suspect that will happen any day now. And sanctions, quite possibly the much loved "crippling" sanctions so often sought by the US, will be asked for and likely granted.
It's impossible to overemphasise how important that last point is. The new global financial system being built by Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa will be difficult enough to pull off even with a solvent Russia. With Russia crippled economically, it might prove to be impossible.

Killarney:
I'm not the one using Gazan Mothers and their babies as human shields!
What did you expect, that Hamas could fire thousands of missiles at Israeli mothers and their babies, and there would be no response?
You seem to be the one with the factual and the huge exaggeration problem.
If a bloodthirsty Hamas wasn't spending most its generous aid on weapons, there'd be money for shelters!
And nowhere is there any evidence that Israel is the aggressor, albeit, they are the ones now asked to accept a conditional cease fire!
What for?
So that Hamas can rearm and begin the same old same old all over again; and then criticize Israel for defending itself, as you seem to do!?
Unbelievable!
The one thing that set the bloodthirsty Nazis apart and allowed them and other psychopaths like Stalin, to murder millions of unarmed men, women and children, without a single qualm!
Was the complete lack of NORMAL, repeat, NORMAL human empathy!
Suggest you open the other eye, and raise your head from where you've buried it!
If you have a problem with people firing back when attacked, suggest you're in for a rude awakening, and even more distraught Gazan Mothers hugging their dismembered babies!
Perhaps if Gazan men behaved like men, they wouldn't need to hide behind mothers and their babies like the craven cowards they really are, and fight like real desert warriors, with only their lives on the line if defeated?
Then Gazan mothers wouldn't need to hug their babies, at least not those simply created, as is the often proud boast, just to become human bombs.
And so bloody stupid, when just 9-10 years of waiting and biding their time, in peace!
Israeli Arabs will outnumber the Jews at the ballot box, and effectively control what happens to Gaza and Gazan mothers from then on!
And that's what would occur, if NORMAN human empathy played any part in this totally bizarre conflict.
Putin eats babies!?
Well I did remark on your seemingly limitless ability to hugely exaggerate!
Rhrosty.

Correction.
Correcting the automatic correction!
NORMAN should read NORMAL!
Rhrosty.

Rhosty, the passengers all died virtually immediately because the very
high G forces of their almost instant deceleration would have ruptured
all internal organs.

A latest news bit, Russia's GDP has fallen to 0.2 %.
A recession is guaranteed. Their oil production has peaked hence the
very expensive drilling program that Rhosty mentioned.
That can only mean expensive oil.
Russia is now very dependant on oil & gas sales.

We are all in the same boat, with governments that are pretending that
there is nothing to worry about.

Rhosty, you keep mentioning those Northern deposits; are they of
a significant size, and are they seismic only results ?
Are they below the Great Barrier Reef ?

If they are then we would not be able to get at them unless all our
cars were up on blocks.