Disgust at Belarus’ grounding of Ryanair jet selective given lack of concern about similar incidents involving West & its clients
I woke up the other morning with every major MSM outlet spamming outrage over this incident - My immediate thought was, "Uh oh, looks like ole' Lukashenko nabbed one of CIA/Soros agent/agitators, lol, get Rekt kids - how's that feel?". Good for him. The over-the-top accusations by the media about "omg muh terrorism" just made me roll my eyes so hard.
Storm again in Belarus!
Suddenly, on Sunday, May 23, news came that the Minsk airport received information about a bomb on board an Athens-Vilnius plane flying over Belarus. The Ryanair plane landed at Minsk-2 airport, no bomb was found, but one of the founders of the extremist neo-fascist telegrams of the NEXTA channel was on board (it really became the main informational and driving force behind the protest in Belarus during and after the 2020 presidential elections). The channel is sponsored by Poland (maybe the United States, and various democratic foundations). All the creators and administrators of the channel's telegrams, opposition leaders (including Tikhanovskaya - Belarusian Guaido) fled Belarus even before the elections or immediately after, when they realized that they had lost to Poland and Lithuania. They are all wanted in Belarus. They lost but didn't give up. Because the PTB has not abandoned its plans to overthrow Lukashenka and impose democracy following the example of Ukraine.
Bolton called the countries surrounding Russia a gray zone that needs to be REMOVED:
... Six Eastern European and Caucasus countries were left in a gray zone between Russia and NATO’s new borders, thereby remaining vulnerable to Moscow’s desire to reestablish hegemony within the former USSR....
...Russia kept Belarus politically and economically close, still its strategy today but an increasingly difficult one after 2020’s popular opposition to the Minsk regime....
...As long as a gray zone remains between NATO and Russia, instability will persist. Shrinking this inherently dangerous geographic space reduces potential Russian mischief, and ultimately confronts Moscow again with the question whether to join the West or oppose it.
...Belarus is the hardest challenge of all, with alliance membership inconceivable for quite some time. Yet however difficult it may be, the U.S. cannot leave Belarus to Moscow uncontested. The map alone shows how geopolitically critical Belarus is for Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics, and how grave a threat an offensive Russian military presence would be. Ironically, rising pro-democracy sentiment increases the risk of Russian military intervention, and perhaps an outright Anschluss, even as the popular discontent demonstrates that moving Belarus westward may be more feasible than previously thought. NATO needs more outreach into Belarus, and its Eastern European members should play a major role. Belarus also implicates the related question whether Sweden and Finland will finally accept the inevitable and join NATO, thereby bolstering the Baltic republics and others.
Russia’s promises not to intervene in its former republics — and its protestations that its intentions are benign — carry no weight. Russia will stop meddling when it knows that it cannot succeed and that crossing a NATO boundary (of some sort) will bring inevitable and highly damaging consequences. The sooner we make that clear, the better....
By JOHN R. BOLTON
May 13, 2021
Until now, political scientists and experts argue over whose special operation this was:
1. Pure coincidence
2. Operation Lukashenka and the Belarusian KGB
3. Operation of Western intelligence services.
So far, there is little information and data to give an exact answer.
The case is really tricky. I will not go into detail about all the facts and nuances.
But I am already inclined to think that it was option 3. Too quickly (almost instantly) there was a reaction from almost all Western leaders (European, Canada, USA), from the pseudo-leaders of the Belarusian opposition based in Europe. As always, groundless accusations are heard against not only Lukashenka the terrorist and air pirate, but also Russia. There are calls for re-imposing sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and even stopping the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline.
Immediately,
European countries decided to boycott Belarusian airlines and banned flights in the country's airspace. This will increase the cost of flights to some destinations, increase the load and risk on airports, as the aircraft will need to refuel due to the lengthening of the route. About 300 000 planes flew t through Belarus per year.
Belarus has invited representatives of ICAO, IATA, EASA and the EU and US aviation authorities to study the incident with the Ryanair aircraft.
But NOBODY did not answer the invitation.
Belarus has caused alarm and outrage across Europe this week by forcing a jet to land and detaining two of its passengers. What the West does next will matter but, at the moment, it looks likely its response will be the wrong one.
www.rt.com
In Latvia, the mayor of Riga, where the world ice hockey championship is being held, together with the country's foreign minister, replaced the national flag of Belarus with the white-red-white opposition flag. Countries have sent ambassadors to each other.
The deputy of the Latvian parliament proposed to take the Belarus national ice hockey team hostage and exchange it for all "political prisoners". “There is a proposal: Latvia detains the entire Belarusian hockey team and releases them to the Latvian border in exchange for all political prisoners of the Belarusian regime,” Aigars Bikse wrote on Facebook.
He noted that "the European Union was hit in the face" and the response to the incident with the Ryanair plane in Minsk "must be loud."
The collective West has much more benefits from the current situation, more destabilization and chaos, more pressure on Belarus and Russia, new sanctions:
automatic translation Belarus:
-The special operation to arrest the ex-editor-in-chief of Nexta Roman Protasevich, or a series of incredible coincidences that led to his arrest, opened a new page in Belarus's relations with the EU.
-After the 2020 elections, despite all the harshness of the statements, the EU was limited to rather symbolic sanctions against Belarus. Painful sanctions (against Belarusian oil refining) were imposed only by the United States.
Now on the agenda:
- A complete ban for EU-based airlines on all flights through the airspace of Belarus and a ban for Belarusian airlines to make any flights through the airspace of the EU. The United Kingdom and Ukraine have already joined these sanctions, having canceled all flights to / through Belarus and closed their airspace for Belarus.
In addition, there are calls for the expulsion of Belarus from the International Civil Aviation Organization, which de facto may mean a complete air blockade of the country.
- Freezing of investments from the EU to Belarus.
- Sanctions against individuals involved in an emergency landing in Belarus on board the Irish airline Ryanair.
Calls from the UK to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline running through Belarus (owned by Gazprom) are purely German trolling.
Due to the Ryanair incident, Belarus is receiving significantly tougher sanctions from the EU than previously imposed by it due to the elections and protests in the country.
Tough sanctions can really hit the Belarusian economy hard. Europe is the second trading partner of our country after Russia. But this whole story has one plus for us. Lukashenka's information and political window to Europe is closing. The sanctions actually cut off all directions for Belarus, except for the Russian one.
The political and economic dependence of the Republic of Belarus on the Russian Federation is sharply increasing.
I hope Lukashenka has no secret fantasies that the West will forgive him and accept him back, if only as Milosevic or Gaddafi.
I want to believe that we have a leader who will not betray. Unfortunately, our society is now divided into a small part of ardent oppositionists, patriots and a large part of just people who see all the madness of the world around them, but do not know who to trust.
Of course outraged A SEA OF LIES is pouring around. The media on both sides are very much escalating the situation where one should not hype on hot news.
I stay calm, but a heightened sense of justice sometimes boils inside. Just a crazy house around.
