RYanair forced to land in “White Russia”

[TCAS II]

It all comes down to men seeking power...time will tell if he is tortured and then you can continue to defend these actions.

[ReserveTank]

It all comes down to men seeking power...time will tell if he is tortured and then you can continue to defend these actions.

Cry a river. He's on a terrorist list for acts committed against Belarus and their people. It's their duty to bring him in to face charges. He will have a chance to defend his position. It's not as if other pax were harmed.

"Dissident journalist" is the term the media uses for a suspected terrorist. All to touch your Pavlovian buttons and evoke an automatic response. I would say the trick works on the public very well.

It's so moronic how some of you believe all of this anti-Russia propaganda. They spent years and millions of dollars down South on it only to prove zero.



For that matter, Navalny was a wanted criminal as well.

[shimmydampner]

Canadians.... passively accepting that Canadian boys should be snipped and made into eunuchs.

Uhhhhh, I'm sorry...what's this now?

[DadoBlade]

delete.

[RedAndWhiteBaron]

And Lukashenko is a tin pot dictator with more power than sense - and he has little actual power.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He is living proof: vanish the reporters, and all... I seem to remember Putin doing that, once or twice...

[kgb531]

Reserve Tank. The smartest guy in every room he's ever walked into. Lol

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/belarus-a ... -1.6038279

Gospadin Lukashenko doing a bit of overreach to arrest (& likely get rid of) a journalist.
Doubt much will happen but think flights to/from Belarus, including entering their airspace, should be banned until buddy is turned loose & returned to the west. Subsidy made available for western airlines affected.
Doubt that will happen. or I’ll say again

Journalist LOL. More like traitorous trouble maker. Belarus is one of the last clean countries that have resisted Western degeneracy, all due to the efforts of Luka (whether anyone likes him or not). Belarusians have in society what Canadians USED to have before circa 1965. People like Tsikhanouskaya and Protasevich aren't true Belarusians, they are full-fledged degenerate Westerners out to destroy the Belarusian way of life. Not every country is like Canada and just lets every single foreign asset walk all over it.

It's fully within Lukashenko's reach to have an aircraft intercepted if he perceived a threat to his country. Anybody cry when a plane suspected of carrying assange was intercepted and forced to land in Austria?

[‘Bob’]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/belarus-a ... -1.6038279

Gospadin Lukashenko doing a bit of overreach to arrest (& likely get rid of) a journalist.
Doubt much will happen but think flights to/from Belarus, including entering their airspace, should be banned until buddy is turned loose & returned to the west. Subsidy made available for western airlines affected.
Doubt that will happen. or I’ll say again

Journalist LOL. More like traitorous trouble maker. Belarus is one of the last clean countries that have resisted Western degeneracy, all due to the efforts of Luka (whether anyone likes him or not). Belarusians have in society what Canadians USED to have before circa 1965. People like Tsikhanouskaya and Protasevich aren't true Belarusians, they are full-fledged degenerate Westerners out to destroy the Belarusian way of life. Not every country is like Canada and just lets every single foreign asset walk all over it.

It's fully within Lukashenko's reach to have an aircraft intercepted if he perceived a threat to his country. Anybody cry when a plane suspected of carrying assange was intercepted and forced to land in Austria?

Lots of people cried when that happened. Maybe if you say it enough times, people will remember differently. I don’t seem to remember a fake bomb threat or the use of armed interceptors in that incident, though.

And if you wrote the same type of things you wrote about Canada, about Belarus... ...you would be a terrorist as well in their eyes. No bombs planted. No airliners hijacked. No rockets fired. No hostages taken. Just pure freedom of speech. So-called western cancel culture has absolutely nothing on the outright attacks on freedom of speech in Eastern Europe.

[Biff]

It all comes down to men seeking power...time will tell if he is tortured and then you can continue to defend these actions.

Cry a river. He's on a terrorist list for acts committed against Belarus and their people. It's their duty to bring him in to face charges. He will have a chance to defend his position. It's not as if other pax were harmed.

"Dissident journalist" is the term the media uses for a suspected terrorist. All to touch your Pavlovian buttons and evoke an automatic response. I would say the trick works on the public very well.

It's so moronic how some of you believe all of this anti-Russia propaganda. They spent years and millions of dollars down South on it only to prove zero.



For that matter, Navalny was a wanted criminal as well.

What actions made him a terrorist?

The worst I can see was that he was publisher/editor of a Belarus centred news Chanel called Nexta. In that role, “as mass protests became a daily feature of life in Belarus, Nexta published times and places for demonstrators to meet, suggestions for countering and avoiding police, and instructions to keep the movement peaceful.”

Doesn’t really sound like a terrorist but maybe that’s what a terrorist does in Eastern Europe?

[Biff]

I'm not joking. I don't know what you mean by a high trust society. Who's trusting whom, and to do what?

You engaged in the conversation without understanding what was being discussed.
What does a trusting society consist of? Start with that.

I’d like to know what you meant as well.

When you answer a question with a question is suggests that you don’t really know.

[7ECA]

It's responses like some of the windbags above, that show in marked detail how disgusting this forum has become of late. I thought it was bad when COVID first started, but hell it's only getting worse of late.

If you can't see the this incident is nothing short of unlawful interference, or piracy, then you are willfully blind to what's going on in the world.

[TCAS II]

Don’t trust the Russians, or the Belorussians. Look at what’s going on in Crimea. Even during WWII, the Russians changed sides.

Either way, this was a hijacking of an aircraft from a corrupt government.

Power corrupts.

[CpnCrunch]

It is now confirmed that the "bomb threat" email was actually sent 24 minutes after ATC notified the plane about the threat:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/em ... 021-05-27/

Also, they made a few other mistakes in the email, and it wasn't very plausible: https://archive.is/843S6

Clearly it was planned in advance by the Belarus authorities, so they are the ones who sent the bomb threat.

Why are you supporting terrorists, ReserveTank?

[dhc#]

Belarus: Russia blocks some flights for avoiding its ally

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57271949