The closure of Russian airports following drone attacks on 6–7 May disrupted travel plans for at least 60,000 passengers and affected at least 350 flights.

The air traffic restrictions extended beyond Moscow, affecting Sochi, Kazan, Kirov, Nizhnekamsk, Kaluga, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Tambov and other cities. In addition, over 30 cities in the central part of Russia experienced internet disruptions.

Airlines including Aeroflot, Rossiya, Pobeda, S7, Ural Airlines, Nordwind, NordStar and Azur Air announced flight consolidations or cancellations.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    The American citizens have had their education stripped for decades so they can be brainwashed. And I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Israel but their propaganda machine is also very strong (they send jewish kids from Canada and the US there for birthright trips and have attractive IDF members on these trips to indoctrinate them, and a lot end up marrying people because of it and moving to Israel, bolstering the indoctrinated population).

    Okay if someone can be indoctrinated into believing brown people should be bombed to oblivion they’re a shitty person, full stop. Americans already know the shit Biden was funding in Gaza and yet nothing happened.

    Do you think people in those countries leading resistances deserve to suffer?

    No, but I’m certainly not going to shed too many tears for but everyone else.

    You’re probably not hearing much about them because of these propaganda machines.

    Partially yes, but partially because there are simply not that many of them. You should look at polls in Israel asking about how Israelis feel about the war. It’s very damning.

    I’m not actively opposing Ukraine bombing Russia because violence is necessary in resistance, but I don’t think all the people suffering deserve it. Especially the working class who have no power by design.

    In the Russian case some nuance is deserved because Russia is a dictatorship, but still the fact remains that the war has broad popular support, which gives Putin a free hand in the war. People who don’t want any of this of course don’t deserve it, but that’s a minority.

    Also to add, Trump didn’t win the popular vote, he only won it after extreme voter suppression, so no a majority of Americans didn’t actually have a choice because their votes were not counted,

    Oh I’m not only counting Republicans here. Liberals who sat on their asses doing nothing to make things better and screaming “hold your nose and vote for her” at anyone trying to suggest that maybe having two pro-genocide candidates is a bad idea are equally to blame in my book.

    and I suspect similar in Netanyahu’s case.

    The Israeli people hate Netanyahu, but they hate them for his corruption, not the war. They still support the war; they just want to have a functional democratic society while they commit genocide against Gazans. Look at this shit and you’ll see what I mean.

    • Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      The biggest problem i have with this way of thinking is that the first people that experience these struggles are the most vulnerable, the trans people, the disabled, the brown people you speak of. I understand you don’t care if the politically apathetic suffer, but the problem is that they are usually the last to suffer, that’s why they are politically apathetic, they have the privilege to be.

      We don’t get to pick and choose who suffers. And the people suffering right now are the people we should be trying to protect. The people you’re wishing suffering on, for the most part, are not really suffering yet. We’re still in the first few lines of the “first they came for” poem.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        4 days ago

        Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying I want the people in these to suffer as an end in and of itself (though I will take the opportunity to enjoy the schadenfreude); I’m just saying that we shouldn’t trick ourselves into believing this is the result of a minority forcing their desires on an unwilling majority. That matters, among other things, because it means that more radical change is needed than “remove the bad guy and replace him with a good guy”. Many people here act like if Putin/Trump/Netanyahu disappeared Russia/America/Israel would stop being an active force of evil, but that’s simply not the case, so I’m trying to push back against that myth.

        • Banana@sh.itjust.works
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          4 days ago

          Yeah fair enough, I’m probably being autistic about this and maybe taking literally what you meant hyperbolically. In any respect I don’t want to fall into a semantic argument circle-jerk lol

          I think i understand what you meant now and I dont think what we believe is all that different anyway