• 0x0@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    spineless to actually inspect planes

    Wouldn’t that require to land the planes first?

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      3 months ago

      For what it’s worth: A lot of American military planes have landed at Shannon airport as a half way point between the US and middle East for refuelling. For a decent while after 9/11 the Irish taxpayer was picking up the fuel bill when they did as a gesture of goodwill / solidarity. I vaguely recall hearing a million a day at the time but that could be rubbish.

      Ireland is strictly neutral but in practice it gets scooched around a lot for friends and / or obvious land grabs by dictators. We’ve done sapper training in Ukraine for example.

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        Ireland is strictly neutral

        Eerr…

        If planes are landing then it’s a matter of resources to do the inspections. Does any landed plane get boarded like the commercial ones?

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          3 months ago

          We’re neutral militarily, not morally. :)

          And yeah inspections on landed planes would be a resourcing issue but I took from reading that article that it was an airspace violation in this instance.

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            3 months ago

            Also, what are the regulations for manifests of said flights? Are these military flights (and, i assume, except if so)? Should reduce the effort otherwise - although they can always lie…

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          Eerr…

          What’s this about? Are you trying to imply that neutral states cannot recoginse other states? Switzerland recognises the existence of many states.

          If planes are landing then it’s a matter of resources to do the inspections.

          No it isn’t. Getting a Gard or two to look at a plane isn’t the limiting factor. If they have the manpower to arrest and incarcerate civilians who try to inspect the planes (like Tarek & Ken, or Mick & Clare), then they have the manpower to inspect the planes.

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        3 months ago

        Calling an authority spineless 'cos it won’t ground every plane that may be suspect of carrying weapons is a bit of an exaggeration, no? Are there the means to do so?

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          3 months ago

          Yeah absolutely unenforceable. Honestly this all strikes me as much ado about nothing. Someone didn’t realise, sorry lads won’t happen again, end of issue.