Russia signs deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

ByYuras Karmanau an hour ago

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia and Belarus signed a deal on Thursday formalizing the procedure for deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Control of the weapons will remain with Moscow.

The move formalized the deal agreed on earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Putin previously announced in March that his country planned to deploy tactical, comparatively short-range and small-yield nuclear weapons in Belarus. The inking of the deal comes as Russia braces for Ukraine’s much-anticipated counteroffensive.

Both Russian and Belarusian officials framed the step as driven by hostility from the West.

“Deployment of nonstrategic nuclear weapons is an effective response to the aggressive policy of countries unfriendly to us,” Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said in Minsk during a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu.




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[Lovie777]

1. Russia sees itself on the losing side....................

I wonder what the appointed dictator is feeling in Belarus, last I heard he got mysterious ill.

[Botany]

2. None of this shit would be happening if we had stopped the Russians from installing Trump in 2016..

... put both Flynn and Manafort in prison for selling out America to Russia before that.

2016 RNC Delegate: Trump Directed Change To Party Platform On Ukraine Support

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-trump-directed-change-to-party-platform-on-ukraine-support

[orangecrush]

11. +1

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. So will Belarus act as Russia's proxy lobbing tactical nukes into the Ukraine?

This could open the door to full scale war in Eastern Europe.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. According to what I read,...

Russia will retain full operational control, so politically, it would not matter if they come from Belarus instead of Bryansk.

Putin and Russia would still bear the consequences of using tactical nukes (whatever those would be).

[Bayard]

4. Crap.....

K&R

[cstanleytech]

5. Not suprised as we already know Beluras is being run by Russian puppets.

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. I'm sorry if I'm not alarmed

Most of the countries around them are too close to use them. What real strategy is there other than having a new saber to rattle? The whole exercise looks like a waste of money.

[NBachers]

7. I wonder how strong the No Nukes population is in Belarus.

[orangecrush]

12. ...

[tornado34jh]

8. While I don't support any country having nuclear weapons and I've been critical of the world on that

But the fact that Russia, no surprise, will give Belarus nuclear weapons, means you're asking for other countries to want to get them. I mean, by that logic, why shouldn't other countries in Europe not have them? Poland will want them, Ukraine should never have gotten rid of theirs, the Baltic States will want them, maybe Finland would want them, and people wonder why NATO expanded. It was Russia's own doing. If they hadn't invaded Ukraine, perhaps maybe Finland and Sweden wouldn't have joined (although I think they probably would have done so at a later time). So if Russia is mad that all this is happening, they have no one to blame but themselves.

[maxsolomon]

9. Matter of time until Belarus is annexed.

Probably when Lukashenko is no longer able to hold on to power.

About 1/3 of Belarus was Poland prior to WW2. Ukraine, too.

[Kennah]

14. Pooty Bear rattling his rattle