Ever since pro-Russian rebels shot down commercial airline Malaysia Air Flight 17, the Russian propaganda machine has ground out fabrication after fabrication, which will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the West to get the Kremlin to admit wrongdoing. According to the New Republic, here’s some of the Russian tall tales: “Did you know Malaysia Air Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason, on July 17, MH17 moved off the standard flight path that it had taken every time before, and moved north, toward rebel-held areas outside Donetsk? … Or that it was the result of the Ukrainian military mistaking MH 17 for Putin’s presidential plane, which looks strangely similar? Did you know that the crash of MH17 was all part of an American conspiracy to provoke a big war with Russia? Well, it’s all true – at least if you live in Russia, because this is the Malaysia Airlines crash story that you’d be seeing.” In Soviet Russia, plane shoots down rebels. More…