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2022-10-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-10 09:22|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Then watch the Poles move to their border.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-10 11:37|| 2022-10-10 11:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Americans are the Winged Hussars this time.

Posted by badanov 2022-10-10 13:22|| 2022-10-10 13:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 13:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 13:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Agreed. Everyone is playing for keeps here.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-10-10 15:38|| 2022-10-10 15:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 15:52|| Front Page Top

#8 #2 The Junta will sell it as that, but their motivations are a disqualifier.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-10-10 17:55|| 2022-10-10 17:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 18:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 18:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 19:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you," - Leon Trotsky

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-10 20:06|| 2022-10-10 20:06|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 22:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Stay the fuck out.

Sound advice for Russians.

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-10-10 22:44|| 2022-10-10 22:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 23:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 23:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-10 23:59|| Front Page Top

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