Because, you know, theirs are dissidents; ours are criminals.

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Morales back in #Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden

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Fury over “state piracy” as West weighs action against #Belarus

reuters.com/world/europe/fury-

@kravietz

Mr Anyone, as you refer to him, was not on board. Else he'd be keeping company with Mr #Assange.

@kravietz

Let's be clear, I do not condone the action, especially as a former commercial pilot myself.

It's the hypocrisy of the reactions that gets in my tits though.

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So what's a non-hypocritical reaction to what happened in Minsk?

1) "doesn't matter because in 2013 another country did something remotely similar"

2) "it was bad, but what about 2013"

3) other options? 🤔

@kravietz @0
There is a huge difference.
Do you know what international law is?
Have you heard about diplomatic immunity?
Try to imagine that Belarus forces to land presidential plane of some of American puppets.
""The president has been kidnapped by imperialism, and he is being held in Europe," he said in a televised address late Tuesday night. The vice president called for workers worldwide to protest "this act of imperial arrogance."

@kravietz
Unfortunately the answer is sad.
They should stand in front of the people and admit that they are hypocrites and behave worse than Lukashenko.
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@kravietz
You think that Belarus is bad?
Polish prime minister yells so loud. Poland is #EU member, Polish police beats young people and women on the streets, arrests them at 6 AM.
People are beaten at police stations and people die at police stations.
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@Br0m3x

How exactly the fact that authorities in country X beat protesting women justify the forced landing of plane by country?

Did you for example consider a possibility that actions of *both* countries could be wrong? Or you're stuck in tribal thinking where if X is wrong then Y must be right? 🤔

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