Posted on 10/10/2022 1:41:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Fears were raised today that Belarus could join the conflict in Ukraine after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he will deploy a 'joint military task force' with Russia on the country's western border.
The dictator said this was in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its backers in the West, claiming without evidence that that Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian 'radicals' for terror attacks, after announcing plans to deploy joint troops with Moscow.
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'Strikes on the territory of Belarus are not just being discussed in Ukraine today, but are also being planned,' Lukashenko said at a meeting on security, without providing evidence for the assertion.
'Their owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus to drag us there.'
'We have been preparing for this for decades. If necessary, we will respond,' Lukashenko said, adding that he had spoken to Putin about the situation while at a meeting in St Petersburg.
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'My answer was simple: 'Tell the president of Ukraine and the other lunatics: if they touch one metre of our territory then the Crimean Bridge will seem to them like a walk in the park'.'
He also claimed Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian 'radicals' to carry out terror attacks in his country.
'The training in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of Belarusian radical militants for them to carry out sabotage, terrorist attacks and to organise a military mutiny in the country is becoming a direct threat,' Lukashenko said.
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Yep.
RuSSia is always expanding or contracting. It cannot exist in stasis.
“Of course, you can expect a pre emptive attack against NATO forces marshaled in Poland”
And then Moscow will become a memory.
Cronos: [Russia wasn’t running out of standard artillery.]
I’m afraid sooner or later a missile from Russia or Belarus will go off course and land in Poland. I want Russia to lose but we can do without things being escalated.
The corollary to Thucydides is, of course, “The strong do what they do because they can.”
“Wrong. EVERY other party besides Zelensky is banned.”
This is absolutely FALSE. Eleven pro Russian parties were banned. Five of them included left, leftist, or Socialist in their name. However other parties exist and their representatives were voted into office in 2019 as shown in the long chart in this link. The last year with results is 2019, the next election is 2024. Most of those results are near the bottom of the chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_Ukraine
This next link is a discussion with Ukraine media people about the wartime restrictions, their concerns for possible authoritarianism, but belief that will not be the final result.
pr.org/2022/07/08/1110577439/zelenskyy-has-consolidated-ukraines-tv-outlets-and-dissolved-rival-political-par
“This is absolutely FALSE. Eleven pro Russian parties were banned. Five of them included left, leftist, or Socialist in their name. However other parties exist and their representatives were voted into office in 2019 as shown in the long chart in this link. The last year with results is 2019, the next election is 2024. Most of those results are near the bottom of the chart.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_Ukraine
But, please realize those supporting Putin deal in propaganda not truth.
In the temporarily occupied areas like Lugansk; teachers, civil engineers, hospital staff, and city administrators had to join the party: UNITED RUSSIA. And this was even before the fake referendums.
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