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Lieqiang, wow, I did not realize that the Belarus army was so small. I just expected that a decades long dictator would have put much of his nation's wealth into a larger military. I am kind of surprised.
I suspect they let the military get so small because the regime’s relationship was cozy enough with Moscow that they expected he Moscow would bail them out if the proletariat started getting too uppity.
Problem now is that Moscow’s busy with their extra special deNazification training exercise right now and not providing much help to countries they were theoretically part of their mutual air group. (See also: the resumption of Armenia-Azerbaijan festivities) so Lukashenko has to tread very carefully to make sure he can successfully brutally oppress another uprising of the proletariat, who are currently seeing few advantages and a lot of downsides for being allied with a Russia conducting extra special deNazification training exercise right now.
So a lot of the reason why Belarus hasn’t crossed borders yet would be because there’s concern about maintains domestic stability if they do.
I suspect they let the military get so small because the regime’s relationship was cozy enough with Moscow that they expected he Moscow would bail them out if the proletariat started getting too uppity.
Problem now is that Moscow’s busy with their extra special deNazification training exercise right now and not providing much help to countries they were theoretically part of their mutual air group. (See also: the resumption of Armenia-Azerbaijan festivities) so Lukashenko has to tread very carefully to make sure he can successfully brutally oppress another uprising of the proletariat, who are currently seeing few advantages and a lot of downsides for being allied with a Russia conducting extra special deNazification training exercise right now.
So a lot of the reason why Belarus hasn’t crossed borders yet would be because there’s concern about maintains domestic stability if they do.
Belarus has 10 million people, Ukraine has 45 million. Also, after 2014, Ukraine was beefing up its army, as it expected war with Russia. Belarus was not expecting war with anybody. So why have a big military?
Russia confirms it’s targeting Ukrainian energy facilities: Russia is targeting Ukrainian military and energy facilities in attacks on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. “Today, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue launching the massive attack using high-precision long-range air- and sea-based armament at the facilities of military control and energy system of Ukraine,” the ministry said in a post on Telegram.
Energy minister says about 30% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure hit since Monday: Around 30% of energy infrastructure in Ukraine has been hit by Russian missiles since Monday, Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said Tuesday. The minister told CNN that this was the “first time from the beginning of the war” that Russia has “dramatically targeted” energy infrastructure.
Like I predicted would happen FYI.
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Official at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukrainian company says: Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company Energoatom said that a deputy director general for human resources at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped. In a post on its Telegram channel, Energoatom said that “Russian terrorists” was holding Valeriy Martyniuk at an unknown location, adding that Russia wanted the plant’s personnel files “to force Ukrainian staff to work for Rosatom [Russia’s nuclear operator] as soon as possible.”
Interesting, will follow this.
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G7 leaders vow to hold Putin to account for recent attacks: The G7 heads of government vowed to hold President Vladimir Putin and those “responsible to account” for the recent wave of attacks in Ukraine. After a virtual meeting Tuesday, they committed to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” while promising to continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support.
G7 leaders do some more virtue signaling.
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Russia declares Meta a terrorist organization: The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service has added the US tech company, Meta, to its registry of organizations involved in terrorism and extremism. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has been banned in Russia, says Rosfinmonitoring. That ban now requires banks to freeze funds for companies on that list and suspend services to their accounts.
Says a person who claims that Ukraine attacked Russia.
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