Belarus has caused alarm and outrage across Europe this week by forcing a jet to land and detaining two of its passengers. What the West does next will matter but, at the moment, it looks likely its response will be the wrong one.
The Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was compelled to land in Minsk on Sunday while traveling through Belarusian airspace, on the basis of what appears to be a fraudulent claim that a bomb might be on board. It is now evident that the purpose of the forced landing was to arrest Roman Protasevich, who, officials in the country claim, has played a major role in organizing unauthorized protests there.
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