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by vbezhenar 1859 days ago
Belarus is backed by Russia. Russia is strong enough to make any attempt of invading Belarus to cost a lot of lives. And invading Russia itself is out of question because of nuclear response. That's how I see that geopolitical situation. War is very unlikely in my opinion.
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> War is very unlikely in my opinion

Which is a good thing, War rarely turns out well.

An appropiate reaction would be to stop overflights of Belarus - which both eliminates the risk of Belarus forcing down civilian planes, and reduces Belarussian income

We don't need to invade Belarus, we just need to, for example, level the airports in the country, something that Russia can't do much against.

Not to mention that Russia is no doing very well themselves.

Waiting when those dictators with nuclear weapons will lose their mind completely can cost even more lives.