It's very different. NS2 is long, largely unmonitored/unmonitorable, with lots of semi-anonymous traffic overhead. It's literally not that difficult to do for any country's competent special forces.
Shooting down a plane is much harder, and only Russia would have AA missiles over Russian territory.
Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspect.
That tired ol' fallacy[0] again...
It's like unison from a certain cohort when these posts come up.
That's because HN users enforce a strictly natobrained perspective and stories "from the other side" get flagged and killed. The only way to get views is to post comments.
What’s natobrained about Russia shooting down the Azeri plane ?
Who said it was?
Oh we know, but we are forced to pretend something else.