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They did not do the same thing at all. Refusing permission for a state aircraft to transit your airspace is very different from forcing a civilian plane to land
by DangerousPie 5y ago
They did not do the same thing at all. Refusing permission for a state aircraft to transit your airspace is very different from forcing a civilian plane to land in your country under false pretences, in order to make a political arrest of a journalist.
- tomp 5y agoIt might be different to a lawyer, but in reality it's the same. Forcing a plane to land so you can search for / arrest someone. About the same as "theft" and "civil forfeiture" are different...
- DangerousPie 5y agoThe two big differences are that Belarus actually forced the plane to land (the Bolivian one could have just gone back) and that this was a plane full of civilian passengers, not a diplomatic jet.