Byelorussia Forces Down Commercial Airliner

This weekend a Ryan Air flight was forced down by a fighter plane. Once they landed, a dissident on the flight was taken away and put under arrest. There is speculation that the autocrat of the nation got help from Putin and Russia to pull off this outrageous stunt. The question now is how to respond to it? Should we let Europe deal with it? Or should the US complain and create sanctions?

I know we want to discourage other nations from interfering with commercial air travel, would be a bad precedent to let them get away with this.

Little to nothing can be done other than to not fly in Byelorussian airspace.
recall KAL 007, Korean 747 shot down ob the Soviets because it flew into USSR airspace. A U.S. Congressman was on that flight. Some 269 people died in the crash. Other than expressions of outrage nothing substantive was done.
What if Byelorussia had information that the individual was a suicide bomber, do you think that the appropriate measures were taken.

It was a state-sponsored plane hijacking.

The European Union has agreed to impose new sanctions on Belarus and ban its airlines from EU airspace after it forced a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk.

The dissident journalist (whom some would call "slanted"), gave his girlfriend his phone and laptop before he was taken off the plane. He told her he would likely be executed.

Baryshnikov refused to take flights that went over the Soviet Union. Good to see the EU punishing them.

Fred,
What do you think about this?

In 2013, the U.S. and key E.U. states pioneered the tactic just used by Lukashenko. They did so as part of a failed scheme to detain and arrest the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. That incident at the time caused global shock and outrage precisely because, eight years ago, it was truly an unprecedented assault on the values and conventions they are now invoking to condemn Belarus.

www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anger-tow...s-plane-find-snowden

Lukashenko evidently had better intelligence than our CIA. So, what else is new?

Didn't like it then either, I want whistle blowers to be able to get their message out there. The US government keeps way too many secrets for way too long.

ramage wrote: Fred,
What do you think about this?

In 2013, the U.S. and key E.U. states pioneered the tactic just used by Lukashenko. They did so as part of a failed scheme to detain and arrest the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. That incident at the time caused global shock and outrage precisely because, eight years ago, it was truly an unprecedented assault on the values and conventions they are now invoking to condemn Belarus.

www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anger-tow...s-plane-find-snowden

Lukashenko evidently had better intelligence than our CIA. So, what else is new?

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