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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago
[-] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Lukashenko knows the war is really unpopular with his people and that supporting Russia with troops would be a death sentence for him.

That Lukashenko didn't even condem the Ukrainian counterinvasion shows how much of a minefield this war is for him.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -5 points 4 months ago

Why would Belarusians side with Russia... it aint like Russians were "nicer" to them than ukrainains, georgians, moldovans, kazakhs, balts, chenchens, jfc i am getting tired listing them. you get the vibe...

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Because Russian troops are stationed within a day’s travel of Minsk and the country depends on Russia for ocean access?

Same reason Kazakhs have traditionally supported Russia, until they got that new shipping route built that bypasses Russia entirely.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 4 months ago

Moreso, Russia has actively supported the current Belarusian government including helping to put down protests in Belarus.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, please cite a reputable source for this or remove it.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Neither is credible: they also claim that the weapons were made in Russia, not that they were given by Russia. Remember the whole "soviet union" thing, where a lot of Eastern European countries still have leftover arms and ammunition from?

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Belarus has been acting like Russia's little butt boy for a while now.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

He should now stay far away from windows

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

This just in: Lukashenko officially endorses Linux!

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago
[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

He may actually be huge but anyone would look big when you're sitting next to a very small man.

[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

With small hands

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Wow I never realized he had such a tiny head.

[-] luckystarr@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

I reckon his border to Russia isn't defended very well.

[-] vpol@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

His country is a defence of Russian border. At least a buffer zone.

[-] taanegl@beehaw.org -1 points 4 months ago

Oooo, someone wants to be in the history books as "the guy who wanted to end the conflict."

No deal, Lukashenko. You'll always be a Boris Yeltsin knockoff, and a bootlicker, and a spineless shill, so sayeth history.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think so. I think he's worried Ukraine could do an incursion in Belarus and stir Belarussians to topple him.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

And he should be worried. He backed Russia. He has slept with the invader, now he can rot with him.

[-] vpol@lemm.ee -3 points 4 months ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago
[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Bro, answering every comment here that offend the Hitlers wanna be that he love

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -4 points 4 months ago

Belarus people need to get rid of the clown...

JFC is ukraine the only east Slav nation willing to fight for itself?

Russians and Belarusians don't seem to have it them.

Russians will go die in Ukraine no problem tho 🤡

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago

sorry they're not stupid enough to sacrifice themselves for the interests of the US

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Russia is literally fighting for itself. What are you fucking talking about? Is it only fighting for themselves if Slavs align with Western Europe?

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago

westoids be like: "why dont you go and throw your life away you useless slav untermensch!, also sell me all your national assets while you're at it"

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[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They've tried. Didn't work out well. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader, I'm not sure what's been decided is misinformation.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Weird way to say Ukraine is the only slav nation dumb enough to be used as a proxy for the burger empire.

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