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Nevilledog

(51,064 posts)
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 08:01 PM Feb 2022

Belarus renounces its non-nuclear status. May now ask Putin to station nukes in Belarus.



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Myroslava Petsa
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Belarus renounces its non-nuclear status in a referendum. Lukashenko may now ask Putin to station nukes in Belarus. Ironically, before/during the ongoing invasion vs Ukraine, Putin had been accusing Kyiv, not Minsk, of seeking to ditch its nuclear neutral status.

4:51 PM · Feb 27, 2022
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Belarus renounces its non-nuclear status. May now ask Putin to station nukes in Belarus. (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP
They are on the losing side! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #1
Is this at Putin's request to give him leverage at the "talks"? Karadeniz Feb 2022 #2
I'd guess so-- nukes are expensive and take experience to... TreasonousBastard Feb 2022 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2022 #4

TreasonousBastard

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3. I'd guess so-- nukes are expensive and take experience to...
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 08:10 PM
Feb 2022

install. Russia would be their only supplier, and wouldn't likely go through all that just because they asked nicely

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