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Is Belarus set to join Ukrainian conflict? Lukashenko announces he will deploy 'joint military task force' with Russia on western border – sparking fury in Europe
2022-10-10
  • Remarks from Lukashenko indicate a possible further escalation in the conflict

  • He said, without evidence, Ukraine was drawing up plans to attack Belarus

  • 'Their owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus,' he claimed

  • Remarks came as Russia hit Ukraine with at least 83 missiles as revenge for an explosion which crippled the Crimea Bridge on Saturday
Posted by:Skidmark

#18   On November 8, Trump’s GOP will take over Congress

They’ll hopefully be elected that day, though final vote counts in some cases won’t be known for days or weeks. The new Congress won’t be sworn in until January 20th or 21st of next year, as directed by the U.S. Constitution.

In the meantime the lame duck Democrat-controlled Congress will do their best to pass the rest of their wishlist.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-10 23:59  

#17  Don't bet your mobilization deferment on it, comrade. The Republicans have always been tougher on Russians (Communist and Fascist) than the Democrats. It was Trump that armed Ukrainians with hundreds of millions dollars of weapons when Obama would not. The results were evident on the roads to Kiev.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-10-10 23:51  

#16  Only 29 days of grifting left. On November 8, Trump’s GOP will take over Congress and wind down this idiocy of feeding the Ukrainian thieves and dragging us toward WWIII.

The GOP candidates are surging. In Arizona, Ohio and Pennsylvania the odds now favor the Trump-backed America Furst Republican candidates. JD Vance just mopped the floor with Tim Ryan.

Looks like the America First wing of the GOP will sweep into office and enable the party to win both the Senate and the House.

The Great Ukraine Grift ends November 8.

Tick tock.
Posted by: Palermo    2022-10-10 23:34  

#15  Stay the fuck out.

Sound advice for Russians.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-10-10 22:44  

#14  Belarusian Defence Ministry claims Belarus will not fight against Ukraine unless "provoked"

The Ukrainians already blew the border bridges. If an invasion is imminent, I'm guessing the Ukrainians will flood the border again, making off road travel impossible and channel the Russians into artillery kill zones.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-10-10 22:43  

#13  "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you," - Leon Trotsky
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-10-10 20:06  

#12  Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
As said the other day: "Chaim who just showed up".

Sit it out
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-10 19:50  

#11  Screw the Polacks. We owe them NOTHING.

Like their Ukrainian Nazi friends, the Poles slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews and now they’re trying again to shakedown Germany for still more reparations.

Re. their spat with Russia: as someone once said: “Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.”

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

Stay the fuck out.

Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-10 19:31  

#10   I can only find UK based publications promoting Poland to enter the war.

What is British for "Let's you and him fight!"?

The point of all the noise in Belarus is to keep the Ukrainians from moving their troops in the area over to the east where the action is.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-10-10 18:38  

#9  I can only find UK based publications promoting Poland to enter the war.
Where are your Polish sources?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2022-10-10 18:18  

#8  #2 The Junta will sell it as that, but their motivations are a disqualifier.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-10-10 17:55  

#7  Poland tells its citizens to flee Belarus NOW and carries out checks on its bomb shelters after Lukashenko announces 'joint military task force' with Russia and Putin blitzes Ukraine with missiles, killing at least 11
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-10 15:52  

#6  ^Agreed. Everyone is playing for keeps here.
Posted by: Secret Master    2022-10-10 15:38  

#5  ...The Poles just told all their citizens in Belarus to get out now.

I've said this before and I'll say it again - the Poles have a Never Again attitude every bit as strong as the one the Israelis have. If the Belarusians swing first, they're going to be flattened by the Poles long before the rest of NATO gets there.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-10-10 14:22  

#4  Lukashenka must know that attacking Ukraine will invite retaliation and the Belarusian people will rise again in revolt at the first sign that they may gain their freedom. What game of stroking Putin is he playing?
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-10-10 13:55  

#3  Belarus and Russian troops are gathering on the border again, so I expect them to try. The Poles and Lithuania have also moved their troops to the border and put them on heightened alert. Fun times.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-10-10 13:37  

#2  Americans are the Winged Hussars this time.
Posted by: badanov   2022-10-10 13:22  

#1  Then watch the Poles move to their border.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-10-10 11:37  

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