Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace

Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by mopsi on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:44AM (#27264274)

Morales-Shmorales. No-one cares about the games governments play with their private jets. This was an unprecedented attack on public scheduled intra-European passenger service that every regular person may end up using.

This is a whole different category and that's why the whataboutism isn't working this time and the standard "losing moral authority" talking points sound particularly shallow and unconvicing.

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by pydry on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:33AM (#27265561)

Perhaps not to you. I think they'll make effective use of whataboutism on Belarussian state TV and newspapers. The similarities make it almost too easy for them.

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by mopsi on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:48PM (#27266617)

I wouldn't call that particularly effective. Everyone but the most braindead vatniks know that's bullshit. Lies, lies and further lies just like in the USSR.

No amount of propaganda can mask how shitty the life is. There's no reason whatsoever why Belarus couldn't be enjoying the same quality of life as their direct neighbours in the west, they were at the same starting point in 1991 after all. Limited travel is still possible and people know very well what life is like just across the border. Do the same job, get paid several times as much, and without getting molested by government thugs.

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by pydry on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:53PM (#27270630)

>Everyone but the most braindead vatniks know that's bullshit. Lies, lies and further lies just like in the USSR.

https://www.rt.com/usa/524710-psaki-belarus-bolivia-plane/

RT is already mocking the very same press secretary who justified doing this to get Snowden in 2013 for getting outraged now as she unconvincing deflects a question about it.

CNN won't show that on your TV but I'll bet Belarussians will get to see it.

This is not going to play out unfavorably for Lukashenko, especially if the US/Europe hits them with sanctions that bite.

>There's no reason whatsoever why Belarus couldn't be enjoying the same quality of life as their direct neighbours in the west

Realistically Ukraine is a closer model for how they'd end up if they rejected Russia and aligned more closely with the West. They are under no illusions that a quick change of allegiance will turn them into Luxembourg.

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