There’s almost no possibility that the two incidents I’m going to write about in tonight’s blog are connected, except that they happened in the same country, which is not such a great coincidence since Russia is an absolutely massive country, the largest in the world by far, and one of the events didn’t actually happen inside Russia, it’s just all about them. Also, I think the proper response to both of these situations is the same.
All of a sudden, it was just there
The first incident took place in Siberia, clearly inside Russian territory. A giant hole, which is apparently NOT a sinkhole, although I don’t understand what the difference is, has suddenly appeared. Aliens? A meteor? Fracking? Military testing? Global warming? Nobody knows. It’s about 80 meters across and nobody knows how deep yet. It was discovered when a helicopter flew over the area. Remember, this is Siberia. Nobody lives nearby. No lives were lost.
The second incident, of course, is the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine. Maybe the Russians thought it was a Ukrainian plane, maybe the Ukrainians thought it was a Russian plane, nobody knows. In either event, it’s at the very least a high level of military incompetence, because they should be able to tell the difference between a large airliner and a fighter jet, and they could have checked with air traffic control at the nearest airport. Of course, there are other possibilities, such as metal fatigue, mechanical malfunction, a terrorist bomb on board having nothing to do with either Russia or Ukraine, or something else.
The proper course of action, however, is exactly the same in both incidents. Let the investigations proceed, find out what actually happened, and then (and not until then) start discussing what to do about it.
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