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Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant
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Putting aside the question of whether the leadership of those countries actually wanted to arrest him, it's not obvious to me what they could actually do.
When an aircraft is passing through, and not actually landing, they could order it to land (which it would refuse to do, presumably), then they could resort to some posturing with fighter aircraft, then they would either have to give up or shoot down a foreign head of state.
Unless they're willing to immediately go to war with Israel and the US, and likely a bunch of other countries, there's really nothing they can do about it
Not give it passage through their airspace. The most basic things.
You plan to not give passage with your amazing mind control skills?
Your "basic things" proposal needs to be pragmatic.
How do you think nations enforce their airspace normally?
I always assume that libs are dumb as fuck but this was just amazing. They don't know anything holy shit.
They've become worse than parodies of themselves at this point. Like, Netanyahu could literally drive through these countries and these white supremacists would be arguing "How could they possibly arrest him? He could just say no!"
If a cop wants you to stop your car, don't do it, you can just keep driving.
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Do you think Putin could go through these European airspace without being challenged?
Give us some more of that mental gymnastics, bud.
What are they gonna do? Shoot down the leader of the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world?
They would probably threaten to, at least. Denial of airspace, then if he went through anyway there's zero chance they wouldn't send fighter jets up there.
I wouldn't be even surprised if they did, but Putin never tested it.
They should withdraw from the icc then
If an aircraft enters your airspace without your permission, you can shoot it down. Who is on it is immaterial. I can understand Italy, Greece and Canada not having AA missiles or not wanting to piss off the US, but France can 100% get away with it. The US won't pick a fight with a nuclear power.