For anyone unaware, Salisbury was where Russia sent an incompetent military hit squad into Britain with a chemical weapon (a Novichok nerve agent) to kill a Russian dissident. They failed to kill their target, double-agent Sergei Skripal, or his daughter Yulia.
They did however severely poison them, along with a police officer who went to the Skripal's home.
The Russian GRU military officers also failed to securely dispose of all the nerve agent before they fled, resulting in the poisoning of two random British citizens months later, one of whom died.
We did next to nothing about it at the time, we just pissed and moaned and kicked out some Russian spies.
Several years earlier, Russian-backed terrorists used a Russian-supplied missile to blow up a civilian airplane, MH17. They killed everyone on board. We did approximately fuck all about it.
Despite there being 10 British people on the flight (and some Indonesians, a bunch of Aussies, the Malaysian crew, and a big load of Dutch people). 80 kids on that flight.
I think, thanks in no small part due to the corruption in our government and financial sector, we officially forgot quite quickly.
Edit: A few minor changes to make it less difficult to read. Bonus add - The ridiculous "Salisbury novichok suspects say they were only visiting cathedral" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/russian-tele...
By all accounts this appears to have been an accident, in the sence that they never meant to shoot a civilian aircraft. These types of mistakes have been made before, with US shooting down a Iranian passenger plane (Iran Air Flight 655), and Iran accidentally shooting down their own (!) airplane.
It appears in each case it was a Ground-to-Air missile and the crewes were panicking thinking they were under attack.
But Russia knowingly supplied terrorists with the weapons system.
The terrorists knew they were attacking a plane, they just thought it was a different (and hostile) plane.
And through panicked incompetence those terrorists obliterated a Malaysia Airlines 777 with nearly three hundred people on it.
Then Russia took the weapons system back and lied about it.
Some people who are Russian citizens, weren't even born in Russia or left as children, precisely because their families were being prosecuted.
I recently saw a picture of 12 Russian opposition leaders, lawyers and journalists from 2000's - the one thing all of them have in common, is that they are dead.
It's clear the current leadership won't leave peacefully, protesting with posters and slogans does nothing. And unlike America, you have no right to bear arms in Russia, so good luck attacking armed men with a kitchen knife.
I don't know what an average man can do against current regime that isn't either suicidal self-sacrafice, or is basically terrorism against the state. Maybe you think that's what required, but unless you have that kind of experience, it's not fair to critize random Joe