It was identified as a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile by the wreckage and serial numbers. There was no way it could have gotten there except by launch azimuth selection.
Who said you needed to hit anything on the ground accurately in order to create an incident to frame the Russians? (Surface-to-Air missile systems have been repurposed to Surface-to-Surface, e.g., the Nike Hercules system by the South Koreans.)
If it lands in the woods where nobody sees it, that wont create much of a scandal now will it? The fact is any missile launch upwards towards poland has to come down somewhere, and the only places are NATO. It would be impossible to prove they hit Poland on purpose, and of course they would try to blame the russians no matter what the truth was. There is no way to prove it was deliberate without ukraine cooperating with an investigation and obviously they wont
Well, in fact it landed in farmland where it was seen and the wreckage photographed. The scandal has to do with the firing of weapons at a neighboring country who is a NATO member. Any missile launch is deliberate. Cars don't start up and drive themselves. Neither do missiles launch except by human control. The fact that it was a Ukrainian missile and they boldly lied to blame the Russians is a patent of deceit, which eliminates the possibility of innocent accident. The Poles are not stupid enough to not understand all this.
It was identified as a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile by the wreckage and serial numbers. There was no way it could have gotten there except by launch azimuth selection.
Who said you needed to hit anything on the ground accurately in order to create an incident to frame the Russians? (Surface-to-Air missile systems have been repurposed to Surface-to-Surface, e.g., the Nike Hercules system by the South Koreans.)
If it lands in the woods where nobody sees it, that wont create much of a scandal now will it? The fact is any missile launch upwards towards poland has to come down somewhere, and the only places are NATO. It would be impossible to prove they hit Poland on purpose, and of course they would try to blame the russians no matter what the truth was. There is no way to prove it was deliberate without ukraine cooperating with an investigation and obviously they wont
Well, in fact it landed in farmland where it was seen and the wreckage photographed. The scandal has to do with the firing of weapons at a neighboring country who is a NATO member. Any missile launch is deliberate. Cars don't start up and drive themselves. Neither do missiles launch except by human control. The fact that it was a Ukrainian missile and they boldly lied to blame the Russians is a patent of deceit, which eliminates the possibility of innocent accident. The Poles are not stupid enough to not understand all this.