• jabrd [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Atm we don’t know, tho I would have to assume it was unintentional. If you were gonna stage a false flag would you target a fucking grain farm? How could Ukraine possibly get away with NATO not catching on? We’re their intelligence agency, they know what we tell them not the other way around. And if NATO is in on it why would they choose such a flimsy incident as the inciting moment? Will a bunch of Americans or Germans really be ready to die because some farmer in a town none of them can pronounce got obliterated? The dirty bomb thing would’ve been more compelling if they really wanted to get this apocalypse rolling

      This was an accident but as Churchill once said, “never let a good crisis go to waste.” We’ll see where the geopolitics spill and who wants what. Poland will no doubtedly feel entitled to something for this but it looks like the US is already shrugging

    • AlyxMS [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      S300 is a surface to air missile, so unlikely. My guess is it's trying to intercept a russian cruise missile and got lost.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Didn't "patriot" missiles due the same thing in the Gulf War pretty regularly, just miss their target and land wherever, killing random people?

    • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It fits a pattern. They cluster bombed a railway station at Kramatorsk where civilians were evacuating with an old Soviet/Russian made rocket

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The latest is that it was a ukrainian missile fired to intercept a Russian missile.