Gaddafi’s Libya was a state that put suitcase bombs on Western passenger airplanes just for kicks (270 innocent people dead in Scotland in 1988).
Not even North Korea does that kind of shit. Reconciling was a pipe dream.
Not even North Korea does that kind of shit. Reconciling was a pipe dream.
But this shoot down had so much going on, it was for all intents and purposes, intentional. The level of aggression shown by that captain, the violations of territorial waters ans deviations from standard practice. He attacked everything that moved and the climate in which his behaviour was tolerated is also a factor. He wanted to shoot a plane down. His colleagues had given him a nickname and his superiors had concerns about the recklessness.
The final settlements reflects the indefensible behaviour.