Plane hijacking...

[mapuc]

There's only one thing I'm wondering about

The response-What kind of weak response can we expect EU and/or NATO will come up with ?

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

There's only one thing I'm wondering about

The response-What kind of weak response can we expect EU and/or NATO will come up with ?

Markus

Indeed. Next time the Russians - and Belarus is Russia, without Russian patronage and support Belarus and Lukashenko would be nothing - maybe decide to intercept a plane over the Baltic and in international airspace, they have air superiority over much of it both in fighters and missiles. What will the Europeans and NATO then do? The Russians can assassinate people in London and in Berlin Tiergarten in daylight and in public, and nothing serious happens. They can run a stunt like this one in Minsk, and the EU only considers symbolic acts as TV news just said over here: more listings (banning regime figures from travelling to the EU and fr4eezing their bank accounts - as if they would still hold their money within European reach. Its not just germany protecting Russia from serious, hurting consequences, France is busy doing so as well in their obsession to confront the Yanks and limit their influence in Europe that France plans to be Francophile.


Loud words simply do not scare away thnew bad guys - Europeans want to be taken as stroing buddies wiohtout being striong buddies. Thats like a weight lifter wanting to be strong without training his muscles and having an according diet.


Maulheldentum.

[Skybird]

BTW, germany lets the Turkish secret olcie hunt Erdoghan critics in Germany, too, and doe snothign about it. Laschet-the-talking-bear even recnetly made Erdoghan's nationapistic figfth column in germany, the DITIB, the "partner" for his wanted relaunch of German-Islamic school curriculae consultations, although the office fvor the protection of the constitution BVS rates DITIB as hostile to the constitutional order.

German policy on Russia:



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German policy on Palestinian Arabs:

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

There's only one thing I'm wondering about

The response-What kind of weak response can we expect EU and/or NATO will come up with ?

Markus

France says flights by Belarusian carrier Belavia could be banned from EU airspace. WOW!

Sanctions are a popular tool in diplomacy. They sound tough, often cost little and, by and large, don’t involve loss of life.

But will the measures being discussed in Brussels this evening make a difference?

Belarus is already subject to a range of UK and EU sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes.

The obvious first option is to harden those sanctions and widen their impact. But EU politicians have already said an act of external aggression like this requires more.

So that will probably involve some kind of EU-wide ban on Belarus’s national carrier and a declaration the country’s airspace is unsafe.

The big question is whether the EU will go even further and impose sanctions on big state-owned companies and key sectors of the Belarus economy, such as oil or potash. Some countries may not want to go that far.

Some may be reluctant to see the people of Belarus suffer for the sins of their leaders. Others will fear that deepening the country’s isolation will only push it further into the warm embrace of Russia. So sanctions might sometimes sound like an easy option. But not always.

Typical response I suspect.

[Catfish]

https://www.rt.com/russia/524614-bel...ding-reaction/

Russia Today

[Jimbuna]

^ Yes, I think many of us could write that in advance of it being published

Russia calls Western reaction "shocking" and "hypocritical"