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Belarus deploys troops to border with Russia over invasion concerns
https://ednews.net/e ^
| 8/3/2020
| daily news
Posted on 08/03/2020 10:42:36 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Novaya Gazeta newspaper has shared a short video showing a convoy of military trucks and armored vehicles moving towards the Russian border.
Official Minsk fears that Russia may take advantage of the instability in the country and carry out the Ukrainian scenario to occupy part of the territories ahead of Augusts presidential election.
The state-controlled Belta news agency said last week that Belarus has arrested dozens of Russian mercenaries after receiving information that more than 200 fighters had entered the country to destabilize it before a presidential election. The mercenaries worked for Wagner, Russias best-known private military contractor
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1918; belarus; belorus; famine; mercenaries; mercs; polarbearexpedition; russia; russians; ukraine; vladivostok; wagner
To: RomanSoldier19
They still use BTR-60s???
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posted on
08/03/2020 11:23:56 PM PDT
by
datura
To: datura; RomanSoldier19
The thing is that Belarus is a tricky case. Belarus is majority "Russian" speaking - but the majority feel Belarussian - or Białoruski to be precise. In the English language it seems that they are a dialect of the "Russians" but in reality the Białorusyny, the Ukrainians and the Moscowites are three "sister nations" formed from the ashes of the Kievan Rus federation, which was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century. Białorus came under the Lithuanians and then the Commonwealth. Under the Muscowites their culture and language was destroyed. But they still see themselves as friends of "Russians" but not quite "Russians". Lukashenko has played a delicate balancing act between east and west
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posted on
08/03/2020 11:56:45 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
To: RomanSoldier19
Official Minsk fears that Russia may take advantage of the instability in the country and carry out the Ukrainian scenario...Here's Putin stirring up unrest in Ukraine.
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posted on
08/03/2020 11:59:08 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Polls are for dancing)
To: RomanSoldier19
Strange. I thought Lukashenko was a Putin loyalist. Has the relationship turned sour? No way Putin will be denied control of his puppet neighbor.
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posted on
08/04/2020 1:06:25 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Caveat Emperor)
To: rfp1234
I thought they wanted to join with Russia?
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posted on
08/04/2020 3:52:04 AM PDT
by
Husker24
To: RomanSoldier19
We were supporting the “White Russians” with American armed forces and their attempt to free from the Russian communists right after WW1 up until the 1920s. It’s a “forgotten” episode in our history.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:05:30 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
To: mosesdapoet
That would be THE POLAR BEAR expedition to Archangelsk and landing troops in Vladivostok in 1918. The 8000 American Siberian troops were more concerned with watching the 73,000 Japanese troops.
We also provided hundreds of millions of dollars in relief through the American Relief Agency during the famines from 1919-1923.
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posted on
08/04/2020 9:01:24 AM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
To: Cronos
Lukashenko has played a delicate balancing act between east and west
That must be why he comes across as an unbalanced autocrat.
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posted on
08/04/2020 2:56:57 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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