I'm sorry Matthew but facts speak louder:
(1) Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL902, KE902) was a civilian airliner shot down by Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 fighters on April 20, 1978, near Murmansk, Russia, after it violated Soviet airspace and failed to respond to Soviet interceptors.
(2) Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007 or KE007, was a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 civilian airliner shot down by a Soviet Su-15TM fighter on September 1, 1983, near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin island.
(3) On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, flying to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, crashed near Donetsk in the eastern part of Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew are reported killed when the plane crashed from roughly 10 km (6.2 mi) altitude. The crash of Flight 17 coincided with alleged claims by Ukrainian separatists with support from the Russian Government of having shot down a military An-26.
Russia is now an abomination under Putin. No matter how much his so-called "morals" appeals to you, this man needs to go - NOW.
I posted this under another heading, but I feel it needs to be posted here. Russia, Vladimir Putin, etc is NO FRIEND of the USA , the Catholic Church, or the world. He is a tyrant and needs to be put away indefinitely (how that's accomplished, only God knows). Putin is a killer and is hell-bent on accomplishing Russian Socialist "morality" world wide. Please, do not in any way shape or form advance Vladimir Putin as a "moral" or "Catholic" choice. He is neither. He is a butcher.