Posted on 02/25/2023 3:35:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Belarus is in the process of readying missiles for combat as the war in Ukraine enters its second year.
In a Telegram post on Friday, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus shared a video of several vehicles transporting missiles and wrote that "as part of combat readiness measures, one of the missile units is moving to the designated area."
Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after President Vladimir Putin announced the "special military operation" on this day last year. Since the start of the war, Russian troops have been stationed in Belarus, which shares borders with Russia and Ukraine. However, Belarusian troops have avoided direct military conflict with Ukrainian forces.
On February 18, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that "Military Intelligence of Ukraine is monitoring the actions of Russian forces in the territory of Belarus around the clock and the attempts of the terrorist country to fully involve the Belarusians in the war against Ukraine."
While speaking with ITV News in Britain, Andrii Cherniak, a representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said: "We see that Belarus seems to be supporting Russia, and at the same time is trying to refrain from joining the war by all possible means. We also see how much Russia is pressuring them."
The Defense Intelligence update noted that the Belarusian military might be forced to follow the orders of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko "and may be involved in the invasion of Ukraine."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
It’s simple ; someone e should cap Lukashenko , one of his own people , so Ukraine can’t be blamed . Surely there is a Belorussian who is a crack shot....Do the world a big favor
Were Democrat congriftman Jamie Rattskin and the Timber Rattskinler separated at birth?
They seem to hold all the same political positions...
I was thoroughly entertained when Luka grabbed one of the Belarus Color Revolution weasels off a plane and slapped his tush in the clink.
And made him sing like a bird, after a good tune-up...
You gleefully cheer for the kidnapping and torture of a journalist whose crime was to suggest that 30 years of rule by one man was perhaps long enough. How typically russian of you
” ...weasels off a plane and slapped his tush in the clink. And made him sing like a bird, after a good tune-up...”
You write similarly to how Bill the Butcher talks. Not a criticism, just an observation
And it’s 1 2 3 4
What are we paying for
Next stop is the Ukraine
American taxpayers pain
And it’s 5 6 7 8
Ain’t Zelenski great
Bidenistas just can’t wait
For defense dollars to fill Joe’s plate
If Ukraine wins then they should pay Belarus back by invading it.
When Ukraine wins, russia will have so many internal problems that it will probably stop propping up Boss Potato. Belorusians will then hopefully take care of business themselves like they almost did in 2020, and eventually rejoined the civilized world on their own.
👀
“It’s simple ; someone e should cap Lukashenko...”
No, no, no. You cannot have a SovietPutin puppet deposed without claims of it being a “coup” and justifying SovietPutin invasion.
This is how RussBots justify restoring Russian hegemony to the borders of the former USSR and its client states. Valiant Soviet Puppets were all deposed by evil globohomo conspiracies and revolts.
Only two more years of the Ukies making The Demented One look like a hero to his Munchkins and then Zelenskyyy will be able to shut ‘er down.
“No, no, no. You cannot have a SovietPutin puppet deposed without claims of it being a “coup” and justifying SovietPutin invasion.”
True but can the Russians handle two wars at once? I mean how well have things been going in Ukraine for them? Would they even be able to raise an army to invade Belarus? What equipment would they use? Would they be well received by the locals? Would they treat the locals as badly as they treated the Ukrainians?
One of the lessons that should be learned from the war in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation is that the United States has the most expensive military in the world but is totally unprepared to fight a first world power. During the last year we have learned that javelins, stingers and HIMARS are not game changers for Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has exposed the weakness of the U.S. and European military industrial base. NATO has lost its ability to produce essential ammunition required to sustain Ukraine’s needs in the battle and lacks stockpiles of tanks and armored vehicles that Ukraine begs for on a daily basis. The U.S. is no longer the industrial behemoth that churned out tanks, planes, aircraft carriers, destroyers and bombs in the Second World War.
Russia, for its part, continues to steadily advance along the entire 1000 mile front (not as fast as a bunch of arm chair generals want) and is inflicting massive casualties on the Ukrainian forces. At no point since February 2022 has Ukraine been able to mount a counter attack against a numerically equal Russian force. Ukraine’s much ballyhooed offensive from last August/September was against an outnumbered group of military police and Russia managed to effect a professional tactical retreat.
The real game changer is Russia’s industrial base. Russia has the natural resources, the factories and the skilled workers to produce the weapons, vehicles, tanks and planes it needs to sustain its forces in the field. The Biden Administration, the media and the pundits in America fail to grasp this reality. Instead they continue to repeat the lie that Russia’s economy is in tatters and drowning under the weight of U.S. sanctions.
###
t is true that U.S. forces took control in 2003 of sizeable chunks of Iraq and occupied Baghdad. But the Iraqi Army lacked air power and effective artillery. Yee haw!! America beat up the kid in a wheel chair. Let us not forget that the United States’ policies in Iraq also spawned a deadly insurgency and led to the birth of ISIS, which carried out epic terrorist attacks in Europe, the Middle East and America. Iraq displayed the impotence of U.S. military power to create a stable political order.
I really question the intelligence of a person who touts the “U.S. rolling over the Taliban and Al Qaeda in 2001 – 2002” and blithely ignores the U.S. ignominious defeat in Afghanistan in August 2021. The Taliban that we supposedly vanquished took back Kabul and forced the United States into a panicked withdrawal. Oh yeah. The U.S. abandoned thousands of Afghans who we had promised previously to protect.
And then there is the ghost of Vietnam. “We won every major engagement against the Vietnamese communists.” So what! Killing Viet Cong in the jungles and mountains did not prevent the North Vietnamese from sweeping down and vanquishing the South Vietnamese government. Here again, U.S. military power was impotent to create a political outcome that served U.S. national interests.
Most Americans indulge the fantasy that if we just use more military force (i.e., more cowbell). This insanity continues to posses the political class controlling Washington and they show no sign of relenting in their quest to destroy Vladimir Putin and magically transform Russia into a lackey of the West. That is what is at stake in Russia’s war in Ukraine and the majority of the Russian people, not just the political and military leaders, understand this threat.
We are witnessing the end of the era when the strength of the U.S. economy and its control of the world economy via the petro dollar enabled Washington to pursue its reckless, multiple overseas military expeditions.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.