Belarus accused of hijacking plane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-5722445
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Landing at Minsk instead of Vilnius? That's about 100 miles, not bad for a Ryanair flight. ;)
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Air piracy. Belavia should be immediately be thrown out of IATA and be banned from overflight of any free world territory (many counties will accord with that).
How to enforce that may become a challenge. I can imagine Belarus getting up to all sorts of tricks like stuffing a plane full of political prisoners and then flying over NATO countries to dare air forces to shoot it down. An immediate trade embargo, of course. Immediate embargo on Irish export goods to Belarus transiting Ulster. The usual stuff. Discourse needs to be made with Russia, as publicly as possible, in order to get Putin onside. "Pissing in the wind" I hear from Hugh? Perhaps the might be right this time. But putting Putin on the spot is a necessity too. |
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Tackle Putin on these issues and he just smirks. He loves playing the bad boy. |
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Got to be done, though. Can't keep pretending we're all mates.
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As to what can be done, I don't think anyone has an answer yet. The work-around seems to be to avoid Belarus airspace and the long-term aim must be to encourage democracy to flourish throughout the world. |
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As to Putin, I've suggested we try and then see what that brings, including incrimination. Quote:
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Will be interesting to see if the UK, US, Canada etc follow suit.
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I'm sure that a strongly worded letter from the hugely influential EU will soon put them in their place.
Failing that, just don't sell them any fish . . problem solved :D |
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