Could someone quickly explain to me why Belarus is involved in this? Is Belarus basically a puppet state now? That kind of threw me for a loop but I don't follow geopolitics in that area as much.
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“Is Belarus basically a puppet state now?” - kind of always has been. Minsk (which I have never been to, but I have family members who have) is regarded as the “most Soviet city” in former USSR. Lukanhesko was nearly driven out of office and his Baltic neighbors despise him
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Ahhh thanks! I heard tanks were rolling in from Belarus into Ukraine. So now forces are invading from Russia, Crimea, Belarus, ... Jesus this is so horrible.
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Yeah, absolutely terrible. I am sure that whatever is going on behind the scenes is even weirder.
Putin looks unhealthy, and his national security meeting the other day seemed like the response to a coup attempt. Welcome to 2022, I guess.
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I'm actually kind of surprised that Putin has survived this long and that there hasn't been a successful coup attempt.
The man isn't immortal but right now he is sure leading Russia down the wrong lane.
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Putin is an odd one, and I don’t really understand what Russian people see in him. I do believe that his strongest support is from members of “Brezhnev generation” - there are a lot of older Soviet-raised people who revere Brezhnev
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My own theory is that the Mossack Fonseca leak showed that Putin fleece a lot of money from taxpayers - but no where near the levels the people speculated about. I think that the disclosure that he stole so relatively little actually weekend him