For a counter-narrative read this:
here’s one quote:
What I’ve been told by one source, who has provided accurate
information on similar matters in the past, is that U.S. intelligence
agencies do have detailed satellite images of the likely missile battery
that launched the fateful missile, but the battery appears to have been
under the control of Ukrainian government troops dressed in what look
like Ukrainian uniforms.
The source said CIA analysts were still not ruling out the
possibility that the troops were actually eastern Ukrainian rebels in
similar uniforms but the initial assessment was that the troops were
Ukrainian soldiers. There also was the suggestion that the soldiers
involved were undisciplined and possibly drunk, since the imagery showed
what looked like beer bottles scattered around the site, the source
said.
Instead of pressing for these kinds of details, the U.S. mainstream
press has simply passed on the propaganda coming from the Ukrainian
government and the U.S. State Department, including hyping the fact that
the Buk system is “Russian-made,” a rather meaningless fact that gets
endlessly repeated.
