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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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[-] Tango@piefed.ca 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] doben@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Let's not pretend Ukraine ultra echodot up there was articulating a pragmatic and neutral scenario. But if you do, you can also pretend to have entirely identical feelings on similar scenarios involving other players.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Russians would do that. Buuuut if a German aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Ukrainian airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Israelis would do that. Buuuut if a Spanish aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Palestinian airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Lebanese would do that. Buuuut if a US aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Israeli airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Iranians would do that. Buuuut if a Israeli aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in the Emirate's airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Saudis would do that. Buuuut if a Iranian aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Yemeni airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the US-Americans would do that. Buuuut if a Russian aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Cuban airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Venezuelans would do that. Buuuut if a US aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Cuban airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the Chinese would do that. Buuuut if a US aircraft aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Taiwanese airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

I don't think anyone was suggesting the French would do that. Buuuut if a Mali aircraft ended up colliding with a drone after being warned not to fly in Burkina Faso airspace, well then it's just an unfortunate accident and it could have been avoided had they heeded the warning.

Or, you could admit that you make differences, depending on who's who.

[-] Tango@piefed.ca 1 points 25 minutes ago

If a Ukraine "ultra" was going to fantasize about a scenario of that ilk, it would be that Chinese airlines simply stop flying over Russia. That's what would help Ukraine. A Chinese civilian airliner getting accidentally shot down in Russian airspace wouldn't really help Ukraine except to encourage Chinese airlines to simply stop flying over Russia, and if that's the result one is looking for, one would prefer to skip straight to that part and not have the civilian casualties in the first place, since Ukraine depends on international goodwill.

No, I think you've neglected to consider the possibility that echodot's comment was meant to be read at face value: that Ukraine doesn't want civilians shot down, but it's not going to sabotage its own war efforts to avoid that scenario either; not when civilians NOT flying into warzones is the easier and more obvious preventative.

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