Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Tuesday, June 14, that Belarus has already received some of the nuclear weapons Russia had said it would be sending over. President Lukashenko said he wouldn’t hesitate to order the use of the weapons if his country faces aggression.
“There will be an immediate decision, I have already said this several times in advance, there will be an immediate answer,” Lukashenko said. “I believe no one would be willing to fight a country that has those weapons. Those are weapons of deterrence. God forbid, you understand me, God forbid, I will have to make a decision on the use of these weapons in modern times.”
[Lukashenko is a sick man in a hostile country with a dramatically weakened patron in Moscow. What happens when Lukashenko falls and Russia doesn’t have the forces to rescue his regime? Those nukes will likely end up in the hands of Western-friendly Belarussians. Putin is playing a desperate and short-term card in this case. — Ed]
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