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Invasion would be completely insane

And its not what I want for my country

In fact I think the only way to remove Lugabe at this point is to remove Putin first, but since this is not happening before second cold war, my only advice for compatriots fortunate enough is to leave



1. You tell them not to leave

2. You tell them how to procure, and handle a weapon

3. You teach them squad, and platoon level tactics

4. You get few people with proper military education to run this

5. You call defeatists their names


This is exactly the argument propaganda in Russia and Belarus brings forward again and again — that it’s bystanders and outsiders that attempt to shame people into violence and grave risk to their lives.

Historically, majority of popular armed revolts were followed by bloodbaths, and years of economic dismay. Falling of Eastern bloc was a major exception, because USSR, the primary sponsor, crumbled itself. And even then there was Yugoslavia.

Dying in the name of freedom is just too much to ask of a normal person. Moving and freeing yourself is a more pragmatic move. Its not that hard to uphold your ethnic identity outside of arbitrarily defined borders, anyway.

Foreign invasion, on the other hand, has a much higher potential to galvanise all sorts of radicalists, as it has done every single time, everywhere.

So, please, be mindful of your call to arms to people in the faraway lands.


>"So, please, be mindful of your call to arms to people in the faraway lands"

Lots of keyboard warriors here. It would do good for them to fix their own proper first.

>"Dying in the name of freedom is just too much to ask of a normal person"

They do not mind as long as it is not their own life.


Didn't Belarus have mass conscription? IMHO a large portion of Belarus men should have proper training to handle a weapon and squad/platoon tactics from their mandatory army year (or year-and-a-half). They don't have a lot of weapons, though.

But if most of them were willing to do that, then the same motivation would apply for the conscripts who currently make up the army and do have all the weapons required, so that would be the scenario of "internal coup" with army turning against Lukashenka; but we as far as we see, neither the army nor the general population are currently eager for violent action, so things would have to get much worse before they might reconsider.


Ok, show us the way by starting a war in your country. Don't want that, do you?




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