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You're suggesting invading a country to impose sanctions on individuals from a different country? This seems extreme and unjustified.
by nickff 5y ago
You're suggesting invading a country to impose sanctions on individuals from a different country? This seems extreme and unjustified.
- notacoward 5y agoYou mean like forcing down a plane going between two other countries because you wanted to arrest a journalist who was on it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich (Russia's puppet BTW)
- unmole 5y agoNo, violating a countries sovereignty is objectively worse than redirecting a plane flying in your airspace. And speaking of forcing a plane going between two countries to land try to make a political arrest, who did it first? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
- fmajid 5y agoAnd before that, there was the highly picaresque story of Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking (and ensuing murder of American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer). There are so many twists and turns in this story, involving diplomatic crises between the US, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and various Palestinian groups that it beggars belief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interception_of_EgyptAir_jet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc...
- rnk 5y agomole, a bad action is still a bad action. I'm in the us and I can admit that bombing endless wedding parties in Afghanistan in an attempt to kill terrorist is wrong. That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
- unmole 5y ago> That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine. What made you think I suggested anything of the sort? I'm sorry but your whole comment is a non sequitur.
- amelius 5y agoMaldives might cooperate if US and EU force them to choose sides.
- thelittleone 5y agoYes agree it might be possible, and that's the point here.