10 Absurdities of Russian Propaganda.

Monday, we saw the Russian propaganda machine operating in full force, pumping out one big whopper after another.  So absurd they were, I could not resist mocking them:

1. "I can say with confidence that if on June 28 combat activities in eastern Ukraine had not been resumed, this tragedy most likely would not have happened." -- Expressing my inner Putin, I can say with confidence that I most likely turned off the stove before I went out.
2. Putin's repeated point -- that had there been peace in Ukraine this incident would have been avoided -- is a curious one, though, since it was Russia's explicit loosening of its border with Ukraine that allowed arms and personnel to flow into Ukraine to escalate the fight with the implicit guarantor of Russia's military (guns, personnel and tanks) parked at the border.
3. "At the same time, no one has a right to use this tragedy to achieve their narrowly selfish political ends." -- Which of course, points to the fact that broadly selfish political ends are justified, right?  That this is coming from the guy (Putin) who has used Ukraine as a punching bag to establish his Novorussia, is to be expected.
4. "We must do everything to provide security for the international experts on the site of the tragedy." -- And by "everything", of course Putin meant "sit around and do nothing but fabricate evidence".  Four days after the fact, and only now he's getting serious about demanding security?  Putin has met his Katrina, I think.
5. [Officials] "should acknowledge their responsibility both before their own people and before the peoples of those countries whose representatives were among the victims of this catastrophe." -- I wasn't sure...was Putin talking about himself or was he excluding himself from his criticism?  You know, instead of helping, for four days he dithered about what happened in Ukraine.  When the investigators have completed their report and point the finger at Putin's rebels, he's not going to take responsibility.
6. Russians and their rebels contend that the rebels never had weapons capable of bringing down an airliner at 33,000 feet.  And yet, we have several videos of BUKs being driven around in rebel-held territory and inside Russia near the Russian-Ukrainian border.  So, exactly how did these BUKs manage to pass through all the rebel-controlled check points without their knowledge?
7. Similarly, one Russian theory of the incident has Ukrainian soldiers firing at MH17 from their own BUKs.  But Russians never explained how it was possible for Ukrainians to sneak into and out of rebel-held territory, through multiple checkpoints, and without any videos, eyewitnesses or photos!  Maybe Ukrainian soldiers were using their special Harry Potter invisibility cloaks?
8. Four days after the fact, Russia finally found the evidence they needed to prove that a Ukrainian fighter jet was in the region, trailing MH17.  Curious though, because none of the videos of the explosion contain sounds of a jet flying, nor is there any visible contrail.
9. Actually, there are remnants of a contrail from a ground-to-air missile in the videos.  The people shooting the video shift the video camera up and down to trace the contrail, you see.  So, not only did the missile have to come from within the rebel-controlled area, but it could not have been fired from a fighter jet.
10. I'm not sure where the Russian media is right now, but at one point, they pushed the theory that Ukraine had shot at MH17 thinking it was Putin, or that MH17 was actually MH370, full of already dead corpses.  

All of this points to the basic truth about humans: We will concoct and trust the most ridiculous narrative in order to relieve our cognitive dissonance.  That the very rebels they were cheerleading for, shot down and killed 298 innocent people, is irreconcilable.  Predictably, the truth must be that the people they despise the most -- pro-Kiev forces -- were responsible for committing this heinous act.