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Sending his soldiers in was no doubt in the original plan. Some units were staged at the border along the Russian troops but he found sense to pull the plug on
by varjag 4y ago
Sending his soldiers in was no doubt in the original plan. Some units were staged at the border along the Russian troops but he found sense to pull the plug on it once he've seen Russian forward units being decimated.
- jacquesm 4y agoI think part of the reason is that these dictators are subconsciously quite sensitive to public opinion and yet another invasion may well have tipped the balance against both Lukashenko and Putin. Now they can pretend to be frenemies, but if Putin had invaded Belarus Lukashenko would have either had to react or he'd be deposed by the Russians anyway. It's a strange situation and it is very unstable. But for the duration of the war in Ukraine, ironically Lukashenko's position is now probably more solid than it was before.