Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[shavenferret]

Ryuu96 said:

crissindahouse said:

Belarus placing more and more equipment onto Ukraine's border.

But instead of the West telling Belarus that their involvement would cause an involvement of the West into Belarus which would be fair game and Belarus' own fault, they just watch again until Belarus will bow down to Putin's order. Maybe not now but it all looks a lot like the preperation as Russia's in 2022 before their attack.

And even when Belarus will do it, the West will just write Twitter posts and letters to Lukashenko

It's a distraction, Lukashenko is trying everything he can to help his Lord Putin without actually getting involved in the war, Belarus military is too small and too weak to fight against a NATO equipped Ukraine and Lukashenko is hated in his own country. We saw the recent 2021 Belarusian protests, huge protests, against Lukashenko, which were only dealt with by Lukashenko beating down his own people, once he no longer has the protection of his military because it's dead in Ukraine then he'll be in real trouble.

shavenferret said:

I think it's just a ruse to divert more Ukranian forces away from the front. If they actually invaded, then NATO would get involved and this would degenerate into ww3. But nobody wants escalation so that seems too unlikely right now. 

Doubt it, Poland may want to get involved but America will just tell them no and that will be the end of it.

ok....... So you tell Chris that it's a distraction but then I say its a ruse which is arguably the same thing.  Then you said no way jose to that.  This makes my head hurt lol