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lukashenko is essentially president for life because another president for life, vladimir putin, is backing him, politically and financially. and so he will continue to give lukashenko whatever support he wants, so the european actions will further isolate belarus. they ll get him even closer to putin and russia, but it s not going to affect the fundamentals of the situation. so boris johnson has said, as a journalist and passionate believer in freedom of speech, i call for his immediate release. belarus s actions will have consequences. what are the greatest consequences that the united states and our allies in europe can do to pressure belarus? again, we can do economic sanctions, we can do political sanctions, isolate them, and so forth. what we can t do, apparently, is get lukashenko out of power. mr. putin has floated him something like $1 billion in loans. look, at the risk of being, you
he says it s shameful and the u.s. joins other countries in calling for his release as well as an independent investigation. willie? so richard haas, ryanair calls this a state-sponsored hijacking. this was a carried out frankly by the dictator of belarus. so what is the appropriate response here? we ve heard outcry from joe biden, we ve heard it from the eu. but what can be done about this brazen it doesn t begin to describe what we saw, but scrambling a jet to land a commercial aircraft and pull off a journalist is something that we haven t seen. this is what it is. this is hijacking, this is air piracy. it s exactly what it is. europeans essentially have come together, banded together to isolate belarus. flights won t go there. they ll pay a certain price. but someone will be able to go from belarus to russia and that s the bottom line.
violence against jews in europe, obviously. you know, going back many decades. but just more recently, jews in europe have traditionally been more vulnerable, as jonathan has said to me and others. they are often, you know, feel more reticent to display their jewishness or display they re taking a risk by doing that. that didn t you d to be the case in the united states and it s really a crisis if it s becoming so. you know, michelle, i want to circle back to something you said, because i think it s so important, that on the far right, the most extreme zionists will suggest that any criticism of israeli foreign policy or israeli domestic policy is anti-semitism per se. and now you have, of course, enemies of jews doing the same exact thing. and something that
europe to land in the belarusian capital minsk. that reporter was then detained on arrival. president biden calls it a direct affront to international norms and condemned the action as an outrageous incident. those are good words to use. the journalist whose flight was essentially hijacked midair has been seen for the first time since the international incident and it only makes things all the more disturbing. we have video here of raman pratasevich. it was filmed by belarusian authorities. he claims he s in good health. and he says that the police are treating him well and he s confessing to organizing protests. it appears that pratasevich has marks on his forehead. in a statement, the president says that the statement of the 25-year-old dissident appears to be made under arrest.