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Maybe you should follow your own advice - your numbers are wildly inflated (can easily be checked at Wikipedia), Ukrainians weren't the only ones in USSR who were starving to death…

So something like Assange.

Everybody is doing that. Even here on the HN you'll get shadow banned - couple of weeks ago whole thread that someone else started just disappeared. I become aware of that only whe…

Impressive level of paranoia from a citizen of a country with 800 bases around the world. Mad propz for your mass media.

You mean you want US to be even more jingoistic? It won't be an easy task for sure as I'm reading propaganda pieces almost every day for a last few years in a places that earlier w…

Why would he do any time at all? Because the people who actually should be doing time are the people in power so they are somehow immune? Also, Chelsea could transition to a woman …

Nobody cares what Canada fears or not. Simple fact is that there's no Chinese hegemony now and there won't be one in foreseeable future because there's existing hegemon that won't …

That's interesting - talking about Chinese hegemony and ignoring 750 US bases worldwide and all the misery they brought all around the world - South America, SE Asia, Middle East..…

Sure, I clearly remember how Bush Jr. along Cheney, Powel and Rumsfeld went to court and were imprisoned for life for all the misery they inflicted. Oh, wait...

Yeah, EU investing money - good, China investing money - bad. - Why it's bad? - Because they get influence over government. - But EU also gets even more influence when they invest …

Passengers were in danger in a same way passengers are in danger over New York if pilot refuses ATC directions. Yeah, Morales's pilot could choose a different path provided there's…

So it's ok if it happened 36 years ago? Morales's airplane incident happened in 2013 - is that fresh enough? Are you sure Snowden flying over US would result in US doing nothing? b…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc... Looks like they learned from the best.

US allies kept CIA black sites on their territory without raising a voice (I guess they were very happy to prove their usefulness to the big boss), I certainly doubt they would pro…

A said 'right' in the sense that they are free to do it like any other state - Lukashenko isn't nice guy at all but he didn't do anything unusual here - shooting that plane down wo…

Don't be silly - Belarus is a sovereign state, they control their airspace and they had every right to land that plane down. Assange made US looked stupid in that incident while Lu…

Nope, that airplane was in Belarus airspace so it's up to them to decide if they want it landed or not. If you don't like it nobody is forcing you to fly over Belarus. Their airspa…

US bombs landed on Croatian Serbs on multiple occasions thus enabling ethnic cleansing. But no biggie, what's small ethnic cleansing between NATO friends?

Belarus airspace - Belarus rules. If EU civilian aircrafts doesn't like it they are free not to enter that airspace.

Yeah, you have such a great legacy when defending democracy all over the world even in cases where you were absolutely dominant military power that this one would be walk in a park…

No, they certainly didn't have to land in Austria. But somehow, god knows why, certain countries closed their airspace for that specific plane. I'm inclined to belive that more cou…

> What happened in the Snowden case was DIPLOMACY ("you may not travel here if you carry this man"), not force. And MiG-29 sprinkled same kind of diplomacy here - they weren't shot…

It's not exactly the same but it's almost the same - multiple countries synchronously closing their airspace so plane can't just go around single one thus basically forcing plane d…

> The thing about a destabilised world order is that it works both ways. Maybe it took 30 years to become obvious to you but at least you got it - sadly that happened only when you…

NATO to "protect" airways over Belarus? When pigs fly, I guess.