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Belarus Forces Passenger Jet to Land
23 May 2021, 11:47 AM
Piano*DadBelarus Forces Passenger Jet to Land
So they can arrest a journalist on boardLithuania calls for NATO response.
23 May 2021, 12:33 PM
MikhailohStrongly worded letter to follow.
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23 May 2021, 03:59 PM
Daniel"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.
23 May 2021, 04:08 PM
Piano*DadCould 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.
23 May 2021, 04:59 PM
DanielI 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.
24 May 2021, 08:01 PM
Piano*DadShort of starting WWIII, this is a decent response, signed unanimously by all 27 EU members, including the authoritarian-leaning Hungarians.
24 May 2021, 08:19 PM
NinaAgreed - 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.
24 May 2021, 08:44 PM
Piano*DadThe 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.
25 May 2021, 01:33 PM
NinaThey'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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Russia Thursday blocked at least two European planes from landing in Moscow because they planned to avoid Belarusian airspace after Belarus diverted a Lithuania-bound flight to detain a government dissident on Monday, U.S. News reports.
Why it matters: The move comes after the EU told European airlines not to fly over Belarus, and appears to seek to undermine the bloc's response to the country's strongman leader Aleksandr Lukashenko, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
https://www.axios.com/russia-b...9d-86f963e759a7.html
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27 May 2021, 05:02 PM
Piano*DadWhat a stupid play by Russia.
They cannot force EU planes to fly over Belarus, so they try the Blazing Saddles maneuver.
27 May 2021, 08:12 PM
NinaAgreed - is their plan to lock out all western flights from Moscow? how about St Petersburg,or any of the other airports in the country?
27 May 2021, 09:41 PM
pianojugglerI’d guess not all flights. Just two a day at random. Much more effective
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27 May 2021, 09:49 PM
Piano*DadEffective at what? Making people, and airlines, shun flights to Moscow ... hence the Blazing Saddles reference.
27 May 2021, 10:45 PM
pianojugglerMinimum 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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