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Lukashenko says he will ask Putin to arm Belarus with NUKES if NATO sends similar weapons to Poland as Putin warns the alliance not to cross his 'red lines' on Ukraine military build-up
2021-12-01
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Lukashenko told Russian RIA news agency: 'We are ready for [nuclear weapons] on the territory of Belarus'

  • The claim came after Putin today warned the West and Ukraine not to cross his 'red lines'

  • NATO leaders were meeting in Latvia amid soaring tensions in the Baltic and Black Sea regions

  • Putin has sent some 94,000 troops to the Ukrainian frontier sparking fears of an invasion

  • But Russian president denies that he has any intention to invade - saying that he is worried about NATO troops
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Yeah, that'll work until China nukes Formosa.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-01 22:17  

#8  "I know I could make the whole world peaceful and calm, if I could just get my hands on a hydrogen bomb."

Heavy metal Kid, Todd Rundgren
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-01 09:45  

#7  "A few weeks later, Sam Russell, a reporter for the British Marxist paper Daily Worker, interviewed Guevara and found him still incensed over the Soviet betrayal. Che told Russell that if the missiles had been under the Cubans’ control, rather than the Russians’, they would have been fired."

Link
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-12-01 09:41  

#6  Indeed. Che Guevara, darling of the Left, would have been the first to destroy the world.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-12-01 09:36  

#5  #1 The Ruskies once put nukes into Cuba but weren't stupid enough to let Castro pull the trigger.
And Putin is definitely smarter than Khrushchev.
Posted by: European Conservative 2021-12-01 08:05

EC,

True to both of those - but always remember that we know now that Castro came within an ace of telling his own people, "Screw it and launch the missiles yourself"...and at at least one site, the Cuban troops there showed up armed and demanding control of the missiles.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-12-01 09:28  

#4  ...no 'right of return' there.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-01 08:51  

#3  And Kaliningrad is forward enough.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-12-01 08:28  

#2  Hypersonics greatly diminish the necessity of forward basing nukes.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-01 08:09  

#1  The Ruskies once put nukes into Cuba but weren't stupid enough to let Castro pull the trigger.

And Putin is definitely smarter than Khrushchev.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-12-01 08:05  

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