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What about forcing the plane of the Bolivian president to land in 2013; what that justified? Lukashenko is doing what "international community" did then -- tryi
by ptero 5y ago
What about forcing the plane of the Bolivian president to land in 2013; what that justified? Lukashenko is doing what "international community" did then -- trying to catch an inconvenient person that the state cannot legally reach otherwise.
I am not claiming that such things should be left with no response. In fact, I suspect this might hasten Lukashenko's downfall (quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi), but he is just taking a page from the "western civilization" playbook. My 2c.
- lovecg 5y ago> What about… I seem to remember there’s a term for what you’re doing in your post…
- ptero 5y agoPlease enlighten me. Ideally, not with a "whataboutism" label, but with a description of why it fits here.
- whimsicalism 5y agoIf we're trying to set up international norms, it kinda seems relevant to what those norms are. Are we distinguishing between those two events or are they equally illegal? What should the punishment be?