You mean like forcing down a plane going between two other countries because you wanted to arrest a journalist who was on it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich

(Russia's puppet BTW)

No, violating a countries sovereignty is objectively worse than redirecting a plane flying in your airspace.

And speaking of forcing a plane going between two countries to land try to make a political arrest, who did it first?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

And before that, there was the highly picaresque story of Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking (and ensuing murder of American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer). There are so many twists and turns in this story, involving diplomatic crises between the US, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and various Palestinian groups that it beggars belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc...

mole, a bad action is still a bad action. I'm in the us and I can admit that bombing endless wedding parties in Afghanistan in an attempt to kill terrorist is wrong. That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.

> That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.

What made you think I suggested anything of the sort? I'm sorry but your whole comment is a non sequitur.

Maldives might cooperate if US and EU force them to choose sides.

Yes agree it might be possible, and that's the point here.