From:
slider@anashram.com
Belarus will fight alongside Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine, Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday, even as Russia's top diplomat said that the
Kremlin had no intention of going to war.
Belarus' president said that he would welcome "hundreds of thousands" of Russian soldiers into his country if either Belarus or Russia are attacked.
"If there is an aggression against Belarus, there will be hundreds of
thousands of Russian soldiers. Who, together with hundreds of thousands of Belorussians, will defend this land," he said.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/28/ukraine-crisis-belarus-will-fight-alongside-russia-if-putin-goes-to-war-says-lukashenko
But like Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said on Friday that
Russia "doesn't want a war", Lukashenko warned that if there was a
conflict "there would be no winners."
"Everyone will lose everything," he said.
Moscow and Minsk are key allies, with Putin providing key support to
Lukashenko during the protests that followed his disputed re-election in
2020.
The United States and NATO have warned that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine after 100,000 Russian troops were massed on the border with the
country in recent weeks.
Russia has repeatedly denied that it plans to invade Ukraine, from which
it annexed Crimea in 2014. In the east of Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists control swathes of territory around the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Moscow has demanded assurances that Ukraine be kept out of NATO, which the Kremlin considers to be a broad anti-Russian military alliance, and cease
to deploy weapons near Russia's borders.
### - so then... and prolly just about any time now... what everyone
probably ISN'T considering is that the extreme far-right militia-group(s)
in ukraine, who've been fighting along the border with the rebel-occupied southern regions all along (the one's who famously like violence &
fighting and that have old nazi affiliations going right back to ww2) are
now likely to launch some kinda offensive 'in' those southern regions (or elsewhere) in an 'agent-provocateur' style tactic singularly designed to kick-off a much wider conflict?
i.e., with sooo much TINDER (all those weapons) just laying around all
over the place, on both sides, it only takes a spark to ignite a roaring
fire that'll be damn difficult to put out once it begins??
either by accident (or by design) it wouldn't take much to start something huh...
people who ultimately don't want negotiations to even 'begin' let alone
arrive at something! people who just want what THEY want and don't care
HOW they damn well get it!
or is that us?? lol sometimes i forget who's who ;)
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