• Quittenbrot@feddit.org
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      17 hours ago

      I once read somewhere that one factor of Lukashenka’s ongoing success with Russia despite being a rather bad and costly ally and still resisting ‘unification’ with them is by him carefully keeping an image of the stupid Belarusian peasant who’s too dumb to be perceived as a threat - all while shoveling a lot of Russian money into his country and still promising Putin something he’ll never give him: his country.

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    18 hours ago

    He won’t be sending out his troops, just providing land for Russia to invade from, maybe even places to refine Russian oil or provide reinforcements. When Ukraine attacks, he’ll cry foul.

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      Belarus has said since the start of the war that they won’t send troops, so nothing new. It also makes sense, since they’re both a buffer zone between Russia and NATO, and they’re awfully much in strike range of Ukrainian aerial attacks.

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        Yes but Luka is owned completely and totally by Pooty-poot, so he wouldn’t announce that if it hadn’t been vetted, right?