EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

Re:EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies by ceilingcorner on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:52AM (#27275277)

So we should ban all flights from certain countries in Africa and the Middle East because they have authoritarian governments? And we should do so until the people there violently overthrow their government?

Opinions like this only seem to come from Westerners who will never have to face the consequences of such actions. Geopolitics is complicated and as my original comment said, regular people are usually the ones getting hurt.

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Re:EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:17PM (#27281187)

I didn't say this particular action was justified, I just think the "collective punishment" reason not to do it is a terrible idea that would make it impossible to take action against any organization ever. It's really a stretch to call something like this collective punishment.

If a government does anything there are regular people that are going to get hurt, but that's not a reason to stop governing.

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