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Comment by MomoXenosaga | Hacker News Reader

Good. Imagine you're a Russian political refugee. You don't want to fly over Russian airspace and have your plane forced to land by Russian MIGs.

> You don't want to fly over Russian airspace and have your plane forced to land by Russian MIGs.

Can't they just ask like the US Government does?

I am appalled. Not very surprised, but still appalled.

It's one of the 3 things that Obama did (or didn't do) that disappointed me the most.

I assume one of the others was ordering a drone strike on a US citizen with none of the usual due process in finding someone guilty.

This is still shocking to me. And no matter how dangerous this guy was, opening the door on killing your own citizens seems far more dangerous.

How is that different from killing somebody’s else’s citizens?

From a personal and ethical position, not much.

From a legal and societal position, huge.

Has that ever happened before? Belarus, sure, it did happen, but what about Russia?

I guess we don't want to wait to find out.

It did happen with Soviet Union in 1978, though it was caused by a pilot error (the plane wasn't supposed to fly over it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902

Edit: To clarify, there wasn't any political refugee - I just mean it was forced to land.

>Imagine you're a Russian political refugee. You don't want to fly over Russian airspace and have your plane forced to land by Russian MIGs.

Like the US doesn't do the same or worse ?

Not to Russian political refugees.

You are misinformed.