Ryanair: “KGB agents on board”. Or simple does it

According to Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary , KGB intelligence agents were on board the plane , which was forced to land by the Belarusian authorities, with the excuse of "It seems that the intention of the authorities was to take a journalist and his travel companion (from the plane), ”the head of the Irish low-cost airline told Irish radio station Newstalk on Monday. "We suspect that some KGB agents were also dumped at the airport (in Minsk)." O'Leary said it was "a state sponsored kidnapping case, (…) state sponsored piracy."

Now I allow myself to doubt whether a KGB agent was on board, if not retired, as the Soviet agency has been dissolved for nearly thirty years. The agent would have been of the FSB or, much more precisely, SVR, since the FSB is essentially concerned with internal security, while SVR is in charge of foreign intelligence. However, it was not necessary to have an agent on board: it was enough to have one at the airport to follow the boarding operations and maybe embark, 30 minutes later, with another company for another destination. Once poor Roman Protassevich was on board, what could he do? Jump with the parachute?

Yet you read these things in one of the major German newspapers, directly from the words of a senior executive who, as far as we know, could also have some nice security holes in his computer system. That said, it is obvious that a scandal has now broken out: stopping a commercial plane with a fake bomb alert, escorted by a military fighter is almost an act of war. Those who remember that NATO did the same with Evo Morale's plane, forced to land in Vienna because there was a suspicion that it was carrying Snowden on board, forget that that plane was not scheduled and had not been allowed to fly over. from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, so it would have been very difficult to continue. Imagine if Italy had first granted overflight permission and then blocked the plane in question.

Now what will Ireland do, where is Ryanair flying the flag? NOTHING, also because it does not have a real aviation or even a fighter, seeing is believing. Austerity and zero taxation is easy when you don't have armed forces. What will NATO do? Probably NOTHING, apart from some wordy and inconclusive stance. What will the European Commission do? Virtually NOTHING, also because Belarus is closely linked to Moscow and Moscow supplies German gas.

So if you are an opponent of a Russian leader or ally, travel by train. European skies are no longer safe.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/ryanair-agenti-del-kgb-a-bordo-oppure-semplice-fa/ on Mon, 24 May 2021 12:14:22 +0000.