Posted on 02/27/2022 1:42:53 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko tonight issued a chilling threat that the West's sanctions on Russia are pushing the Kremlin into a Third World War, after Vladimir Putin put his nuclear deterrent forces on 'alert'.
Lukashenko's comments came as Kyiv and Moscow agreed to hold peace talks at the border with Belarus - though Volodymyr Zelensky admitted he wasn't confident of a positive resolution, adding that he owed it to his people to at least try and engage.
This evening also saw the EU unveil a fresh package of sanctions against Putin's regime, closing off its airspace to all Russian planes and banning Kremlin propaganda outlets Russia Today and Sputnik. In response to the measures, Russian carrier Aeroflot said it was suspending all flights to Europe.
'Now there is a lot of talk against the banking sector, gas, oil, SWIFT,' Lukashenko said. 'It's worse than war. This is pushing Russia into a Third World War. We need to be restrained here so as not to get into trouble. Because nuclear war is the end of everything.'
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Interesting parallel.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the same US interests that had built Japan up as a “colonial” trading partner were dissatisfied with Japan’s growing nationalism and independence. They agitated for sanctions as political pressure against Japan, not out of any concern for human rights.
So, I expect that you are right.
Maybe those Generals have bad breath, or Putin has bad breath. I'm more interested in knowing what those prints on the meeting wall are of.
I wonder if he has something physical going on and if he’s trying to keep people away so they don’t see it? Weird
Did Putin and his boot licker Luka think it was going to be business as usual after the invasion?
He has pancreatic cancer or liver cancer. Most likely pancreatic cancer.
About time Germany woke up.
If so, he has 6-18 months to live.
Oops, you mean over Taiwan
Putin is older so he is in the high risk group for covid-19.
[About time Germany woke up.]
When the German chancellor, who has acted like Putin’s personal valet throughout suddenly does a U-turn - that’s when you sit up and take notice. When the Green weenies in Germany start talking about reviving coal, you know these people have seen the elephant, and are acting accordingly.
Schiff and Pelosi and Schumer and all the democrats with their fake Russia Russia Russia hoax have brought us to this level of hostility with Russia. They enabled Putin with their fake Ukraine impeachment. Schiff caused this all with his fake and evil which hunt using Russia and Ukraine as a fake and evil tool for politics playing with fire and not realizing the repercussions of what they were doing. The media went along and are to blame as well. Somebody please put Adam Schiff in jail for the criminal he is.. Hillary started the ball with this and is just as responsible and needs to be in the jail cell with him. The Republicans need to point this out load and clear. The democrats and Biden are the cause of World War III.
I think he has AIDS and he got it from buttsex.
“And the Putin-Lukashenko fan bois go wild!”
LMAO, ain’t nobody here cheering on Putin, some of us sre just attempting a realistic and objective analysis of what seems to be transpiring. These things have a tendency to spiral out of control quickly, and Putin putting his nukes on standby is next level stuff.
Among other things we are shutting out the Russian Central Bank so we can drive the ruble down to nothing, while his foreign currency assets are frozen so he can’t do anything about it. So we are actively trying to crush Russia economically, which in itself would be considered an act of war. Somehow I doubt Russia will just sit back and accept this without an appropriate response, a response that is likely to raise the stakes even higher. I don’t think they are in the mood to be playing here, they see themselves under an existential threat. All it takes is one miscalculation on either side. And who the hell knows which unelected clown among Biden’s advisors is really calling the shots, I think there’s good reason to be concerned.
Is there an off-ramp, or are they going to ride the bull straight to hell and push the button down?
Lukashenko has been straddling a fine line between Putin and the people of Belarus for years.
Years ago, Lukashenko entered talks with the EU, flirting with the idea of joining.
He is supposedly an elected leader, but has basically made himself president-for-life by rigging elections and not allowing a real opposition.
Lukashenko arranged for a national referendum on amendments to the Belarus constitution which happens to be taking place today. He was counting on this vote to be seen as fair and therefore restore some legitimacy for him.
After mass protests following the last rigged election he turned to Putin for security, whereas before he tried to distance himself from Putin.
Even very recently Lukashenko told his people that Putin did not command him to accept the Russian troops into Belarus, that Lukashenko had himself made the decision and invited Russian forces in.
Also, Lukashenko told his people there would not be Russian military bases established on Belarus.
Lukashenko also had said that he would only send Belarussian troops into Ukraine if necessary to enforce violation of the Minsk agreements in Donbass.
So to my mind these developments are not good at all, Belarus attacking Ukraine with missiles and Belarus special forces joining the attack on Kyiv.
I think Putin told him straight up, you are no longer allowed to straddle the fence. If I go down, you go down, and Belarus henceforward will be part of the Moscow-controlled world and there will never again be any flirting with the EU.
It's hard to see an off-ramp anywhere unless the powers that be in Russia somehow manage to rein Putin in.
China could do a little thing like Hitler did where the Poles "attacked a German outpost" (murdered prisoners in Polish military uniforms were salted around), and they would have a reason to invade Siberia.
There is nothing "deterrent" about threatening a nuclear attack.
VP is the only one that is tossing the nuke card onto the table.
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You know this HOW?
The only real way Germany can hurt Russia is to stop buying their gas. In December 2021 Russian pipeline gas accounted for 32% of German gas.
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