Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed on Sunday that members of the Wagner group who are in Belarus want to go into Poland, comments that come amid heightened tensions between Warsaw and Minsk.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, Lukashenko told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is “starting to get tense with the Wagner group because they want to march on Warsaw.”
“The Wagner group has started to stress us: ‘We want to go to the West. Let us go.’ I said, why do you want to go to the West? ‘Well, to go on a tour to Warsaw, to Rzeszow,'” Lukashenko added.
Lukashenko’s comments came after Warsaw said it was sending more troops to eastern Poland in response to Wagner’s presence in Belarus. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Thursday that Wagner fighters were training Belarusian troops near the Polish border.
On Friday, Putin warned Poland that he would treat any attack on Belarus as an attack on Russia. “Aggression against Belarus will mean aggression against the Russian Federation,” he told the Russian Security Council. “We will respond to it with all means at our disposal.”
Putin also claimed that Poland had its eye on western Ukrainian territory, warning that a joint Polish-Lithuanian force could enter Ukraine under the guise of helping protect the country. He said this would be done “purportedly for ensuring the security of contemporary western Ukraine, but in fact — if you call things by their proper names — for the subsequent occupation of these territories.”
realize that if Wagner group advances into Poland then that will qualify Julio and Sons’ claims that Russia’s true motive is to spread into Europe, and the rest of us will owe them an apology
The comedian has visited Poland many times speaking of removing the border between Poland and Ukraine then fighting Russia as a joint force.
As with most things about this war there are actions being done quietly that whenever Russia tries to address their reasons why they are, are ignored.
This is a warning to Poland to back off and hopefully it will work.
Let’s face it. He’s right. Russia is weak and losing to Ukraine. That’s exactly why they decided to skip Ukraine and attack Poland and all the rest of Europe instead. (Sarcasm alert)
Never gets old….
The Wagner soldiers are phucked in the brain if they want WWIII.
I didn’t take this episode seriously. It seemed more like the Two Wild & Crazy Guys from SNL.
https://youtu.be/P10TXh5mZlc
How do you see that? Kremlin publicly diswowed them. Their hands are completely untied. They can go to England and kill their king without any ramifications for Russia.
That ‘coo’ was really something. I doubt even Stalin did anything so incredible in his time.
That may be true, but in reality it would provoke escalation.
What is there to escalate? The Anglo-American empire already tried every trick in the book to try and start a world war. I just not happening and the underclasses within the empire are sharpening their pitchforks. If it isn’t Wagner who kill the English king, it would be British farmers. Same kind of situation is developing in America.
There is nuclear war potential. Stepping into NATO territory with aggression could be that trip wire.
I don’t think so. The reason for North American Terrorist Occupation of Europe is so Pentagon and English cowards could hide behind Europeans. They will never risk open conflict with the Russian Federation or PRC. Russians could bomb and completely annihilate all US military bases in Mideast and Pentagon will do nothing. But of course they will not for ethical reasons.
You are missing the point completely. There are reckless and stupid people in the pentagon who would like nothing more than having a direct war.
I’m sure there are some but when the things get real, you will see how quickly these chicken hawks will change their tune.
They are truly stupid. Greed, hubris and stupidity knows no bounds. And that’s not even taking into account random human error.
No argument there but again, I’m not worried. The parasites who control the empire have incredible self preservation instinct. Threatening their pitiful existence is the best way to maintain peace.
But they feel they are in an existential threat to their hegemony. Desperate people do reckless and dangerous things.
These aren’t people. They are psychopaths. They aren’t capable of making emotional decisions. Think of it from their perspective. Loss of hegemony vs loss of their existence or death.
I’m of the belief that, sadly, most leadership is psychopathic and self-interested. And most leadership across the globe is run by plutocrats, oligarchs, through their intelligence apparatuses and military.
That’s a-lot to go up against and not solved electorally for the most part. It would require mass pushback to take back humanity. I’m pessimistic about that possibility until things become very very dire. Sorry for the lack of cheeriness.
Yep, 100% with you here.
The comedian in the past has shared he wants to erase the border between Poland and Ukraine and fight Russia as a joint force.
These boisterous prounouncements by Wagner is being kind of consistant with the warnings of similar nature that Russia has been making ever since the comedian’s forays to Poland weeks ago when he first started sharing this want of combined forces.
Yes but The Comedian answers to The Big Guy; and The Big Guy is saying “Cool it. Die where you are.”
These episodes remind me of the Two Wild and Crazy Guys from SNL:
https://youtu.be/P10TXh5mZlc
… me of Commedia del’arte.
It’s only a summer vacation…!
Claims are just claims. I do believe that Wagner forces are there just in case Poland decides to make aggressive moves in Ukraine.
If that’s what it takes to destroy NATO (Neocon imperialist expansionism) they have a point. History would thank them for it. And NATO is apparently on their back foot right now.
Polish people, please help me understand. Has it not been enough for you to send soldiers to die in Ukraine? Now, you want to escalate until all of you die for Ukraine? …What’s that? Oh, it’s because you hate Russia? …I knew that, silly. But, I still don’t understand. It’s like me hating death, but I’m still obsessed about forcing my own death. …It must be because I’m stupid? …Okay, thanks for your help in making me understand what’s been nagging me for a long time. I’m just stupid. (Sarcasm alert)
It’s a pretty good bet that, if hostilities were to break out on the Poland-Belarus border, Russian-Belarusian forces would want to open a corridor from Belarus to Kaliningrad through the “Suwalki Gap.” It’s only 40 miles or so.
It’s hard to think of anything good for NATO and the Baltics that would likely come from stirring things up in that part of the world, but we can’t count on Poland and Lithuania to recognize the obvious and behave accordingly.
Now why would Lukashenko say something like that? There has to be a reason. Does he want to divert Polish forces to guard the border with Belarus so they can’t afford to go into Ukraine?
Where do I send the check? Who knows? Maybe the whole Wagner thing was a feint.