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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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Strongly worded letter to follow.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a Tweet that the incident was serious and dangerous and required an international investigation." Or we could use our 8th grade reading skills and take some kind of action soon. Poor guy will be dead by the time of the investigation if what he said is true. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Could be worse. The Ruskies would just have assigned one of their allied militias the task of shooting the plane down. The European (and Dutch) response to that episode clearly rocked the commies back in their boots. Oh, they're not commies any more, I suppose. Can't really tell much of a difference. | |||
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I don't think they were ever communists in a sense, but they were always Soviets. Lol. Journalism isn't doing well today. Money and power seem to be crushing it from above. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Faster than I Expected Short of starting WWIII, this is a decent response, signed unanimously by all 27 EU members, including the authoritarian-leaning Hungarians. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Agreed - I'll be interested to see if the Biden administration also declares Belarus as a no fly zone for US airlines. I'm not exactly up on flight paths, but it does seem as though it would primarily affect flights from the southern US cities (Dulles, Atlanta, LAX?) to Moscow. The others could just remain north. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
The primary "victims" of declaring Belarus off limits for aircraft transit are airlines and their passengers (mostly westerners). If it causes ticket pricing to go up on flights to Moscow, that might cost Putin a few kopecks. In any case, many western airlines have decided to avoid that airspace for their own reasons. Keeping Belarus's own airline out of the EU might actually do some damage to the regime. They'll have to print up some more money to prevent the collapse of Belavia. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
They've also apparently detained Protasevich's girlfriend, a student in Lithuania, and a Russian citizen. Putin has nothing to say, as he wants to bring Belarus under his sway. And they've released an obviously coerced "confession." This is awful. | |||
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https://www.axios.com/russia-b...9d-86f963e759a7.html
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
What a stupid play by Russia. They cannot force EU planes to fly over Belarus, so they try the Blazing Saddles maneuver. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
Agreed - is their plan to lock out all western flights from Moscow? how about St Petersburg,or any of the other airports in the country? | |||
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I’d guess not all flights. Just two a day at random. Much more effective
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Effective at what? Making people, and airlines, shun flights to Moscow ... hence the Blazing Saddles reference. | |||
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Minimum effort to effect maximum irritation. And leaves open the chance of claiming you aren’t doing it or are doing it for legitimate reasons. And people will still get on airplanes bound for Moscow in case they are allowed to land. I wonder why they call the game “Russian Roulette”.
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