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Lithuania declares state of emergency over Belarus balloons
82 sats \ 6 comments \ @Wumbo 22h news
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 22h
They're some large balloons! Surely the cost to do this would be more than the gain. Most of the balloons and cigarettes would likely be seized by the military, police or even ordinary people.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Wumbo OP 22h
Interesting if Belarus blames smugglers as cover to economically attacking Lithuania.
"We are not attacking you, it is this organized crime group"
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 21h
Could be a fake out to see the response time or anything else they might need to know before an invasion.
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26 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo OP 21h
That could be true.
I was thinking more like, a couple $200 dollar balloon causes your enemy to shutdown their commercial airport. I would guess the daily loses of airport being closed would be in the hundreds of thousands if not million of dollars a day.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 18h
The Vilnius airport is some 25km from the Belarusian border. The balloons fly very slowly and are very visible. Should be trivial to take them down in the first few kms once they enter Lithuania, no?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo OP 18h
Probably not to hard to hit but still likely a cost effective to Belarus.
Also every round fire comes down some place. I don't know if there is collateral damage to be concerned with trying to shot down the balloons.
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