The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies

If anyone is interested in reading the actual legislation, here it is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=OJ:L:2021:197I:FULL&amp;from=EN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=OJ:L...</a>

Good. I made a comment 11 days ago about how it will probably end with nothing, and I&#x27;m very glad to be proven wrong: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27262707" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27262707</a><p>As a Russian citizen, EU and US need to get stop just &quot;being concerned&quot; and do more real stuff like this to put pressure on these dictatorships. We desperately need to get these bastards out of office and into the prison, and we need your help.

Can anyone with subject matter expertise please explain whether or not this will have any practical effect on the Belarussian regime?

I think the broader issue is that eu risks losing access to Russian airspace which would be very costly for us.

For once I am happy that the EU made the right decision.<p>Unlike some past ones that still frustrate me today:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danuker.go.ro&#x2F;eu-copyright-directive.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danuker.go.ro&#x2F;eu-copyright-directive.html</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danuker.go.ro&#x2F;gdpranoia.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danuker.go.ro&#x2F;gdpranoia.html</a>

The EU alienating themselves from Belarus makes Putin a sad panda.

Given that governments have helped overturn regimes before, why isn&#x27;t this being done now? Clearly it would benefit the Belarussian people (friends I have there are struggling a lot) as well as EU. Or are we just afraid of Russia too much still?