NATO members Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are demanding Belarus expel Wagner fighters who went to the country after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny in June.
“We have asked the regime [of Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko to immediately expel the Wagner group from Belarus,” said Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski after a meeting with his counterparts from the Baltic states.
According to AFP, Lukashenko has said Belarus will host 10,000 members of the Russian mercenary force. “Thousands, some of whom are criminals freed from Russian prisons in return for a promise to fight in Ukraine, are deeply demoralized and accused of crimes against humanity,” said Kaminski.
The demand for Minsk to expel Wagner fighters comes as tensions are soaring between Belarus and its NATO neighbors, making the area a potential flashpoint for a conflict between Russia and NATO. Estonia is the only country to attend the meeting that does not share a border with Belarus.
Poland has ordered the deployment of up to 10,000 troops to the Belarusian border and warned Wagner was preparing “provocations.” The buildup began in response to Wagner’s presence and also over migrant crossings, which Belarus’ neighbors blame on Minsk.
The NATO nations also asked Belarus to “immediately send illegal migrants from the border region back to their home countries.”
Amid the tensions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that he would treat an attack on Belarus as an attack on Russia. Lukashenko has threatened to use Russian nuclear weapons that were recently deployed to Belarus in response to “aggression” from NATO.
If the Slavic tribes want to fight it out, let them; just don’t include American blood and money in the mix. But, war is good for business, peace isn’t.
But those Slavic people need the finest US hardware put on their credit cards so they can out Slav the other.
The Swedes and the Fins might come through to help pay the bill.
And sell off to Blackrock…………….
NATO members should have enough common sense to tell the Slavic tribes that they will be on their own, for once, NATO will NOT SUPPORT another offensive war.
Maybe Sweden and Finland and the US are willing to fund and have their sons die for Slavic interests.
At the moment we are watching only Slavs dying for US oligarchy interests. NATO countries citizens are paying for this war.
The three Baltic states and Poland are NATO members. NATO members are not obligated to defend them if they provoke and attack first. But of course, they are sure, they can convince the others that Putin did it. They are poor countries, but Poland is a trouble maker and so are the little Baltic states. They are ignorant enough not to know that NATO already lost. They will end up under the bus like Ukraine and possibly the NATO European nations. With the NS pipeline sabotage Biden finished the EU economy, most EU members are also NATO members. The Biden gang is really smart, you can’t beat that.
NATO members are not obligated to defend them under any circumstances. Article 5 says that if a NATO member is attacked, the other NATO members should do whatever they happen to feel like doing.
They are not rich but, at least, they got their carrots (EU passports). Millions of them relocated to West Europe and have no reason to be discontent. Ukrainians got nothing. Anti-Yanukovich mob in February 2014 was sure it was corrupted Yanukovich who didn’t allowed them to join EU. Now they are losing their country and their lives and no one promise them the membership in EU any more.
The EU set unacceptable conditions for Ukrainian membership. Russia offered a better deal and Yanukovich was negotiating neutrality and trade with the EU and Russia and a new election, but the regime change prevented that.
Succinct and accurate, and I would add Maidan was heavily manipulated by the US and its far right assets in Ukraine.
The CIA paid demonstrators and snipers.
I think so too, but have no proof.
Do you have proof?
Sorry, I can’t recall, journalists who spoke with demonstrators did report it and I never came across a denial. It is plausible, Nuland handed out cookies, the CIA who is always there funds they never have to account for, and Nuland confirmed they invested a lot of money in the Maidan regime change. It is what the CIA does.
He was negotiating for better terms from the EU.
US citizens have been paying for unnecessary and counter productive wars of choice for over a century. But the victim countries are also paying a grim price.
Lukashenko will agree to expel Wagner fighters from Belarus if Poland and Baltic states expel US militaries from their countries.
maybe the instant that Wagner guys were to leave Belarus, Poland would invade
Maybe in your head.
Yawn……………………you again. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Lukashenko has a good stick against NATO. Putin gave him recently some tactical nukes.
Putin didn’t give nukes to Lukashenko. Putin still controls the nukes deployed in Belarus.
Under what possible circumstances do Poland and the Baltics, who have sold their souls to be the lapdogs of the USA, have any right to demand anything of Belarus?? Belarus should respond, “we demand you renounce your NATO membership and expel all foreign forces from your territory first”.
Let them demand all they want. Belarus will do what it thinks best for their national sovereignty.
Belarus has no national sovereignty. It’s an imperial Russian satrapy and does exactly as Moscow tells it to do.
How is Ukraine more a nation than Belarus? Conversely, how is Belarus less a nation than Ukraine?
They are both young nations. 30 years ago, Ukraine was more prosperous than Belarus. Now it is other way around. The lives of Ukrainians deteriorated sharply after the coup 2014. Belarussians watched their unlucky neighbors and learned something. It was one of the reasons why the color revolution 2020 failed in Belarus.
OR the sovereignty of Belarus and Russian interests are perfectly aligned… Much like most nations do.
It’s a multipolar World after all!
The Russian Federation and Belarus don’t even make a pretense of recognizing a fig leaf of “sovereignty” for the latter. They are formally combined in a “union state.”
Belarus translates to White Russia.
Belarus is the only European nation who is going to join BRICS. Probably next year.
It will be interesting to see whether the other BRICS countries would be willing to give Russia two votes by admitting one of its provinces as a separate nation.
You mean like the 31 NATO ‘nations’?
“Poland and Baltic States Demand Belarus Expel Wagner Fighters”
Poland should not exist it is Prussian land and will be again!
It’s OK for Poland and the Baltic states to demand that Wagner fighters leave Belarus, but it wasn’t OK for Russia to demand that NATO leave Ukraine.
Free the Slavs – from NATO.
So, let us forget about the criminals Zelenski has fighting, plus, the NAZI Azov Battalion. Riiiight…..
Oh, they’ll be leaving soon enough… Be careful what you wish for!
The hysterical whiners from that Gang of Four, but mostly Poland, have lost a whole lot of mercenaries in UA; fighting for the ideals of Fascism.. They really should start their own war; they love it so much
The Poles lol looking to get their asses kicked again .
I was under the impression that each country is free to create their own military alliances.
Now NATO members are making demands that contradict a country’s right to host foreign military within their borders.
Western power is imploding, they are desperately in need of more wars.
The USA IS GOVERNED by a deranged president and a bunch of irrational Russophobes at the top and the establishment elite does not dare touch the subject publicly. No one knows who is really in charge in Washington. As of now there is not one qualified presidential candidate in sight for the next election. The US hegemon is getting closer and closer to become a failed empire like the Roman Empire.
FJB hope he burns in He!!
H*tler is waiting for them down there.
There’s no place hot enough.
Yes, there are most certainly parallel between Roman empire and Anglo-American empire. Even early US republic had a Roman imperial fetish. Rome wasn’t just an empire. It was a civilization and it prospered for many centuries because of positive contributions. The Anglo-American empire isn’t a civilization and it seem to copy only negative aspects from the Roman empire.
These are the same guys that 2 years ago were claiming that Ukraine had the right to host NATO and that Russia was paranoid about NATO expansion.