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The Belarusian authorities are preparing children for war with EU countries (texty.org.ua)

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Teen with an old bazooka...not scary.

Teen wearing a drone visor...terrifying.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago

Oh fun. He's not going to start anything, right? This has to be paranoia, right?

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 14 points 5 months ago

As soon as Belarus touches a NATO country they're fucked though

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or an EU country. We've got a whole separate defense union. Historically it hasn't mattered too much since almost all the EU is in NATO, but with Trump looking actually re-electable that's a whole separate alliance he can't directly interfere with.

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 5 months ago

That’s the idea. But are we sure? Are we really really sure? Is President Trump really going to send the full might of the U.S. army into East because Latvia was invaded?

A lot is riding on that answer, and it has never been more in doubt than it is now.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

I mean one of the poorest nations in Europe stopped Russia. Nato without the US is fine.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

NATO has a bigger problem if the US doesn’t honor its obligations

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Are you going for technically true? Because at this point I think NATO without US can laugh at Russia. Only problem is the baltics have no strategic depth.

[+] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone -6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m not sure if NATO without the U.S. is even able to scratch its own butt. We’d be missing a lot of assets that are not easily replaceable, especially in intelligence collection and logistics.

Not to mention the industrial capacity to keep the show going past the first few weeks.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

EU is more populous with a similar GDP to USA. In what fantasy universe of yours could Belarus or Russia without nukes make even a dent in NATO (-USA)?

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Just want to say France and UK have enough nukes for deterrence.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

France alone fwiw.

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 months ago

Let’s just say there has been a marked divergence in investment in defense capability and industry between the EU and the US, historically in general, but especially since 1991 or so.

Things are getting better, but we have lot of ground to cover before we are equal partners.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Doesn't matter how EU measure up to USA, we are talking about a poor, tiny country and a Russia that is deep into a bloody war against Ukraine. If Russia can't even beat one of the poorest European countries, how in the world would they threaten EU? Without nukes, it would be a steamroll in EU's favour.

The illusion of Russia being a military powerhouse that can take on Europe is outdated by several years.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

The reason Ukraine has done so well is because they have been trained and equipped by nato since 2014, those efforts were ramped up significantly when Russian actually invaded.

Yes, Europe could likely defend Ukraine but your point falls apart when you realize that Ukraine held Russia off when the USA was dumping money and equipment on them and when one party here stymied those efforts the battlefield shifted.

Yes. Europe could do it, however right now Europe isnt doing it and hasn’t been doing it without the USA being the biggest contributor and leader.

This is not some point of pride of me as a American, I wish we were able to spend more money domestically and I wish we could fight poverty and inequity and our schools being shit with this money. It is simply the nature of the world right now:

Yes, Europe could do it. But they aren’t right now.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Unless I've missed something, this thread is about Belarus/Russia attacking EU, not about support for Ukraine.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Its an active example of the thing we’re talking about, on /c/ukraine

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Example in argument for what though. That EU/NATO is incapable of protecting themselves without the US? It's not comparable.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Intelligence yes, from what I know.

Industrial capacity? It's not like the rest of these countries are not industrialized. There would be some adjustment aches, but let's not act like the rest of Nato can't find its own ass.

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

I’m talking specifically about military industry. We have some really nice EU defense companies that can produce all sorts of war fighting equipment, but we’re nowhere near the levels of the pork-barrel fed US military industrial complex.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

No. Fucking. Shit. And I replied in the context of military industry.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago

how the fuck do you think belarus has more industrial capability than fucking the entire of europe, ok they mabe they can't keep a full blown war for months BUT IT'S FUCKING BELARUS HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK BELARUS CAN WIN IN INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY THAT THE FUCKING ENTIRE EUROPE hell you need a reality check

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Exactly why he can’t become president again (amongst a plethora of other reasons)

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Being a life long military nerd this would have been super fun for me. Yes dark considering the geopolitical circumstances but objectively come on handling weapons and playing flight sims instead of a boring math class? Easy win for kid me...and adult me

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