From what I understand, the length of his detainment was far longer than allowed under US law. If that’s true, then it was still illegal even under US law.
Agreed on all counts.
Interesting.
Now the Government of Bolivia is claiming his plane was NOT searched because they refused access under diplomatic travel purposes.
Reuters reported that “Morales agreed to a voluntary inspection”. Whatever that means.
This level of cowardice is jaw dropping. Under what threats does a country buckle to close airspace to a fucking president? This is bananas.
Here’s Reuters reporting that the plane was NOT searched.
I expected more spine from the french - I know their reputation as surrender-monkeys is quite strong in the anglo-american sphere but they liked to play stubborn if confronted with USian bullying in the recent past (de Gaulle-style).
Libertarians have a historical romance with fascism. I’d try somebody else.
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So basically we’re looking at a case of Schrodinger’s Plane.
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You must have missed the 5 years of Sarkozy kissing the US’s ass every chance he got. France also rejoined NATO. The de Gaulle style of French politics seems to be dead. As far as I can tell France appears to be aligned like most of Western Europe: do whatever Washington asks and don’t complain. If the Iraq War (2003) were to be started today on the same pretexts, I don’t think either France nor Germany would put up much of a fight. The times have changed.
The US might start by embargoing Coca-Cola, so the Franchouttes will have to drink Fanta.
When you find yourself saying that, I advise you to strongly reconsider why that “point” is so elusive.
I know that sitting in an airport in Moscow facing the possibility of life in prison isn’t quite as brave as commenting on a web forum, but we all struggle along as best we can.
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“Not helping your reputation as surrender monkeys, France.” is a crass comment. It’s like calling today’s Germany fascists or America bullies (well that might actually be true).
I don’t know what kind of twisted form of libertarianism you have in the US, but in the real world, these are opposite ends of the spectrum. (Yeah, Ron Paul isn’t very libertarian if he likes racism and big corporations.)
Not really, because America really is bullies and Germany was fascists at some point. France’s reputation as surrender monkeys is entirely undeserved; they fought. Hard. In fact, they invaded Germany before Germany invaded them. But no country in the world could stand up to 1940s Germany. They conquered some countries in a single day. Once Germany got around the French flanks, there was nothing that France could do. But after the surrender, they continued the fight as the Free French and the resistance.
Calling France “surrender monkeys” means you don’t understand WW2.
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We have libertarianism as co-opted by Ron Paul and Glenn Beck and the republicans. Here a significant number of Libertarians believe that the US was behind 9/11, that there are chemtrails being sprayed into the sky, that Sharia law is around the corner, and that there is a significant amount of evidence that Barack Obama is the antichrist.
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Hayek, Mises, Friedman, Mussolini, Dollfuss and Pinochet exist in the real world, even if Libertarians get bad cases of amnesia when it comes to some of their actions and things they said.
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