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  Why has Belarus not faced the same sanctions Ruzzia has? Fuck them.
context: Ukraine gives all-clear after air-raid alarms
  
  Air raid sirens wailed in Kyiv and across all Ukrainian regions on Sunday morning but no new Russian attacks were reported, officials said. The all-clear was later given.
  Unconfirmed Ukrainian social media reports suggested the sirens may have been triggered after Russian jets took to the skies in Belarus and that the all-clear was sounded after the planes returned to their bases. >
  
  Just wait until the Patriot systems arrive and are up and running. Things are gonna get very interesting soon. >
  
  What is going to happen ? >
  
  Planes go bye bye >
  
  Then what >
  
  Well, it’s Ho Lee Fuk first of all. >
  
  Wi Tu Lo >
  
  Bang Ding Ow >
  
  Some Ting Wong >
  
  My win gon. >
  
  I hope there will be insurrection there e >
  
  Belarus is basically Russia, they have a co government basically. >
  
  From Lukashenko's POV yes but reports have been all about how the military leadership is not on board with joining the invasion directly. Lukashenko's hold on power is pretty tenuous. >
  
  The military is barely capable of joining the invasion directly. Belarus is a small country that could barely send a mechanized unit.. and the Belarus/Ukraine border is largely impassable due to swamps and mines. Probably a part of the reason that Belarus is resisting direct involvement is that it would be suicidal for them.
  Putin is using the Belarusian military to train his motley crew of conscripts, which is the most they can really offer him. >
  
  Sounds like that makes airfields in Belarus a legitimate military target.
  Just using Putin's own logic, what little he has... >
  
  Whats stopping NATO to hold a special military operation in Belarus? >
  
  The threat of full out nuclear war. NATO is a defensive alliance. If a nato nation invaded first there is no agreement the others join. No nato country has been invaded yet. >
  
  Also isn't Belarus part of the cso? >
  
  Yes, but isn't the CSO basically dead anyway? There's pretty serious infighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan (iirc there's a border war on at the moment) that the CSO has done fairly little to try to stop. >
  
  Ik but Russia is destined to intervene as Belarus is so integrated it may swell be a vassal >
  
  Imagine being inhumane enough that a ww1 Christmas was better than this. Absolute depravity and I hope the worst punishment possible comes to Russia's Leaders >
  
  ...and people, too, since apparently a large percentage of them support the 'special military operation'. And if they don't, they're gutless for not standing (or even speaking) up. >
  
  100% guaranteed If you lived in Russia you'd keep your mouth shut about the war