[okie01]

It forces all air traffic to and from Asia to go well south and bottleneck over Turkey and costing all the flights money and time and fuel and safety.

And Russia gains...how?

[Uncle Chip]

Payback against the West for putting economic sanctions on him.

You cost my economy — I will cost your economy.

Hundreds of flights per day went through that Ukraine corridor — now that’s been taken away and the corridor that they have to fly is longer and will cost them more in fuel.