If any random person had done this, the police would be after them to arrest them for kidnapping, but because it’s a nation state doing this the only thing that happens is closed airspace?
I feel like there should be something we can do that wouldn’t be a slap on the wrist.
There are probably more diplomatic levers to pull, but TBH none of the existing ones have seemed to do anything. States are okay at enforcing laws within their borders without massive death or total economic destruction, but don't seem to be very effective at enforcing much inside of someone else's borders barring those options.
Feel free to volunteer for the front line, most of us Europeans don't quite care that much.
Like what? Belarus is a sovereign state, they can do whatever they want in their soil and no one has any authority to enforce anything on them.
I am not going into specifics so not to derail the topic, however there are countries that kidnap people and consistently get away with it. It's all about power and alliances.
So don't compare this to a random person, but to other countries.
It’s like walking away from the bully because you don’t like to fight (or are afraid you’ll get hurt), they’ll just do it again next time since the only thing that was reinforced was that there are no consequences.
It’s just larger in scale.