Belarus Scrambles Fighter to Force Airliner to Land, Arrests Opponent

Newsmax ^ | May 23, 2021

[Navy Patriot]

Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe.

In the dramatic incident, a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet escorted Ryanair-operated passenger plane flying from Athens to Lithuania. The plane was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where authorities detained journalist Roman Protasevich.

Data from the flightradar24.com website showed the plane was diverted just two minutes before it was due to cross into Lithuanian airspace. After several hours in Minsk, the plane took off again for Vilnius, a top EU official said.

[AZJeep]

Everything!

[NorseViking]

Okay, everything without substance = nothing.

[Navy Patriot]

Thanks, Viking, ... looks like the Globalist Left’s narrative is largely disregarded by normal people these days.

[Navy Patriot]

There would have been a lot more of democracy in East Europe, would the foreigners butt off.

I understand your meaning and agree, however rather than "democracy", I would have Constitutional Representative Republics.

Just like everyone else, the Mob cannot be given absolute power.

[Krosan]

In 1995 Belarus shot down a hot air balloon that had accidentally gotten into their airspace killing two Americans. Lukashenko was already in charge then.