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Wicked Blue

(5,854 posts)
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:52 PM Feb 2022

Belarus preparing to join Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. official says

Washington Post

Belarus is preparing to send soldiers into Ukraine in support of the Russian invasion in a deployment that could begin as soon as Monday, a U.S. administration official said Sunday evening.

“It’s very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security development.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine and Russia would conduct the first diplomatic talks since the Kremlin-launched invasion at the Ukrainian border with Belarus.

“We will be happy if the result of these negotiations is peace and the end of the war,” Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations said, reading a statement to reporters. “But I emphasize again, we will not give up. We will not capitulate. We will not give away an inch of our territory.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-news/

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Belarus preparing to join Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. official says (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2022 OP
Big Pooty Man had to call his little brother??? ret5hd Feb 2022 #1
Thanks for the earworm Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #3
Sanctions for both master and puppet dalton99a Feb 2022 #2
I don't see this as much. BGBD Feb 2022 #4
More cannon fodder nt Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #5
Yup BGBD Feb 2022 #12
Next in line to get overthrown vercetti2021 Feb 2022 #6
I so hope you're right. Lukashenko's an installed puppet anyway. crickets Feb 2022 #20
Couldn't get it done solo...and had to call in democratsruletheday Feb 2022 #7
he better be careful... i bet there aren't as many protective layers between him and his people... Takket Feb 2022 #8
If I could FIND a company to Boycott I would- got nothing alittlelark Feb 2022 #9
vodka Celerity Feb 2022 #16
Thank U ! alittlelark Feb 2022 #17
More targets for anti-tank and stingers roamer65 Feb 2022 #10
Ukraine jets and the ones being sent should be able to knock them off Historic NY Feb 2022 #11
Re: It's very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin nycbos Feb 2022 #13
Where should I send my packets of sunflower seeds? alittlelark Feb 2022 #14
Can we nuke em? I wanna nuke somebody pretty bad, yeah. let's nuke both him and Putin, yeah Shanti Shanti Shanti Feb 2022 #15
wtf Skittles Feb 2022 #18
We headed to WWIII anyway, cut off the snake heads, only way to be sure, nuke em from orbit Shanti Shanti Shanti Feb 2022 #19
Tucker's friend. nt GoodRaisin Feb 2022 #21
Hah so "big man" Pooty has to call for help, he's pathetic! nt Raine Feb 2022 #22

ret5hd

(20,524 posts)
1. Big Pooty Man had to call his little brother???
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:55 PM
Feb 2022

Really? Really?

Apropos of nothing, why does the song Macho Man keep getting stuck in my brain?

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
4. I don't see this as much.
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:56 PM
Feb 2022

Belarus has long been a Kremlin lapdog and they don't offer anything to Russia they don't already have.

crickets

(25,983 posts)
20. I so hope you're right. Lukashenko's an installed puppet anyway.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:30 AM
Feb 2022

The Belarusian people side with Ukraine, and they deserve better than Lukashenko.

7. Couldn't get it done solo...and had to call in
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:58 PM
Feb 2022

the minion country to try and finish. So fucking......................maddening.

Takket

(21,634 posts)
8. he better be careful... i bet there aren't as many protective layers between him and his people...
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:59 PM
Feb 2022

as Putin has in Moscow.

He might find himself in the middle of an uprising.

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
10. More targets for anti-tank and stingers
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 11:09 PM
Feb 2022

The NLAWs and Javelins will open those Russian tanks up like cheap sardine cans.

nycbos

(6,039 posts)
13. Re: It's very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 11:16 PM
Feb 2022

Tell me please when has Minsk not been an extension of the Kremlin.

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