TITLE:
One Flew Over the Dragon's Nest
VALIDITY:
Planes allowed, adequate freedom of movement, immigration allowed.
DESCRIPTION:
Blackacre, a nation state with a long held antipathy towards @@NAME@@, has caused international outcry by forcing a @@DEMONYM@@ passenger flight crossing its airspace to land in its capital. They claimed this was in response to a reported bomb threat, but upon landing the plane was boarded, and journalist @@randomname@@ was arrested and taken into custody, before the flight was allowed on its way. @@surname(1)@@ is a Blackacrean national, but an outspoken critic of Blackacre Supreme Leader Valeria Drake, and it seems clear that the forced landing was for the sole purpose of capturing @@HIM@@.
OPTION 1
"This is air piracy, plain and simple, with a @@DEMONYM@@ flight and many @@DEMONYM@@ passengers forcibly diverted by Blackacre's naked aggression," complains your normally placid Chief of Diplomacy. "We must lodge a strongly worded complaint to the global Security Council, and cease any flights over Blackacre's airspace, and encourage our international allies to do the same. We can escalate too, if an apology is not forthcoming, to a very strongly worded complaint, and maybe even limited trade sanctions. That'll teach them not to mess with us!"
OUTCOME:
a foreign policy of tutting sternly at dictators doesn't seem to be greatly affecting the geopolitical world stage
OPTION 2
"I mean, really? They call Blackacre's leader 'the Rising Dragon' because she's decisive and determined. What do you think they call you?" mocks Air Force Marshal @@randomname@@. "@@surname(1)@@ was on @@HIS@@ way to us to defect, you know, and we've just lost a precious asset. Valeria Drake isn't going to be put off by piddling diplomacy. We must retaliate, by seizing a Blackacre loyalist from a flight crossing @@DEMONYM@@ airspace! Just so happens that one of her inner circle is on a flight to skim the northern edge of @@NAME@@ in an hour's time. Shall we scramble the jets?"
OUTCOME:
foreign policy can be summed up as "two wrongs make a right if they started it"
OPTION 3
"Whoa! Whoa! This is a nuclear power we're dealing with, an international player with one of the most powerful militaries in the world!" shrieks Trade Minister @@randomname@@. "So she wants to grab a dissident from her own country while @@HE(1)@@'s in their airspace. So what? We could have avoided this if we'd agreed to the extradition request they sent through a few days ago, and just arrested the troublemaker when @@HE@@ touched down on @@DEMONYM@@ soil. We scratch their back, they scratch ours, and the world moves one step further from nuclear armageddon."
OUTCOME:
anti-government sentiment is illegal even when talking about foreign governments
