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Response to Shrike47 (Reply #1)

Ocelot II

(115,279 posts)
2. There was never a travel ban vs. South Africa. There is a level 3 travel advisory
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:33 PM
Feb 2022

according to which people are advised to reconsider traveling there because of the prevalence of covid, as well as a high incidence of crime and civil unrest. Nobody is banned from going there. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/south-africa-travel-advisory.html
US travelers are told not to travel to Russia (level 4, Do Not Travel), although it is not expressly forbidden. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/russia-travel-advisory.html Obviously journalists will want to go there.

Ocelot II

(115,279 posts)
7. That was for people traveling to the US from there -
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:50 PM
Feb 2022

I understood your post as referring to people traveling from the US to South Africa.

Celerity

(42,662 posts)
11. That ban only applied to and from the US and SA, it had zero legal power for other nations to
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 07:59 PM
Feb 2022

fly there or have SA people come into their nations.

The US is not king of the world, it cannot order all nations to obey.

Try ordering China around. It will not end well.

Also, IF the US actually did try to (as someone ludicrously suggested in another thread) to enforce no (as in zero) flights into or out of Russia, that would be an act of war.

Finally, it is unenforceable as well. What is the US going to do, shoot down passenger jets?


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