The D-Day Debate

The Russian-backed rebels looting and pillaging the crash site. It was just disgusting and appalling what was going on, says Tony Abbott. I said to my military chiefs, if there'd been 38 Americans on board, what would be happening? And they said, well, the 82nd Airborne would be there by now. So we didn't need an armed presence in the Eastern Ukraine but I said at the time that Russia had become a road nation - not a pariah. The Russians were listening in on our conversations and faced with the prospect of a thousand Australian soldiers coming into Ukraine,. They thought, oh my God, we can't possibly have that. so they agreed that police and