The plane was shot down in Ukrainian airspace and crashed on Ukrainian land yet the rump "Donetsk People's Republic" has seized the plane's black boxes and have already sent them to Moscow. The Russian separatists prevented Ukrainian officials from getting to the crash site. At this point the scales are tipped overwhelmingly against American military action. This fact though, of imprecise heft, weighs something, and properly gets added to the side of the scale favoring some attack by someone--America, NATO, some "coalition"--on some Russian people somewhere.
*Plural, 1:45 pm.
*Plural, 1:45 pm.
