The Ukrainian president warned airlines, insurers and foreign governments that the growing scale of Kyiv’s drone operations would make Russian airspace increasingly unsafe for aircraft.

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    24 days ago

    Netanyahu insists three IDF doesn’t target civilians.

    There’s a lesson to learn about taking leaders of governments’ words at face value that y’all refuse to learn.

    I don’t think Ukraine is targeting or planning to target civilian aircraft, but it’s incredibly stupid to base that conclusion on “he said he won’t do it”.

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      24 days ago

      Lmao, a little terrorism is fine, as a treat.

      I’m assuming he meant ‘threat’ and that we’re talking about what was said here, not about what someone might do or not do. But maybe he did mean ‘treat’…

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        24 days ago

        If I go back to my Netanyahu example, “we warned you and told you to get out of there dangerous warzone” is used as a coded threat for “we’re gonna bomb your entire neighborhood and it’s your fault for being in a warzone.”

        The same argument could be made here, by stating that Russian airspace is closed, it could be a coded threat with the prolitical out of “we told them it’s dangerous”.

        Obviously war zones are dangerous, one should wonder why it needs to be stated. I think it’s more chest puffing than “look how well we’re doing”, but if a couple civilian aircraft suddenly start colliding with Ukrainian drones, I would no longer be confident that it wasn’t a threat.

        He does support Israel unconditionally, so I wouldn’t put it past him to consider it as an option, I don’t think he’s stupid enough to think it’s an advantageous option or one he could politically survive. I do think it’s just boasting about having an edge.

        I don’t think it’s a threat, it very much could be one, he doesn’t have to literally come out and say it.