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Originally Posted by T@T
Russia because they hate the truth and Egypt because they need the tourism dollars.
Fact, the tail section was found whole 5 kms away from the rest of the plane, the chances of a modern airliner loosing the whole tail section in mid flight without an explosion is almost impossible if not totally impossible, considering the fuselage with wings attached(this is where the fuel tanks are) hit the ground together says something grave happened to blow it apart from the tail.
Walks like a duck = duck
Talks like a duck = duck
Bomb = duck
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No doubt, ISIS bomb is very unconvinient to russian government and scary to russian tourist.Watching TV news about how our glorious army is bombing the hell out of ISIS is one thing and watching our jet being downed like that is completely different and this could change public opinion greatly, even if public opinion may not matter as much, as one could think. While Putin may respond with bringing real armagedon to ISIS, people - as far, as I can see - would rather lean toward caring about our internal Russian matters, letting the west care about ISIS and letting Asad care about himself. Waging a war in Syria for some vague interests doesn't outweight the risk of dying in the airplane crash for the vast majority of russians.
That said, it's still a bit premature to call it "truth". Could the tail be cut off by the parts of exploded engine (honest question, one of the theories in Russia is that engine exploded and parts of it cut the plane like a knife through the butter, leading to it falling apart).
EDIT: Just stumbled onto an
article by Bloomberg, that basically say that people will support Putin fighting terrorists in Syria, as they supported him fighting terrorists in Chechnya. There are major differences, that this article seems to ignore. First, Chechnya was a part of Russia, that wanted to get away, and russians hate to see our land go (we are the largest country in the world and were raised to be proud of it even if 2/3 of our land is permafrost). Second is that nobody else was fighting chechen terrorists, so it had to be Putin. ISIS is different in that other countries, such as USA, are fighting ISIS, and we may just focus on our own internal matters and see USA, who in the eyes of many russians are responsible for creating this mess in the first place, sorting it out.