The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Belarus to depart the country immediately and warned against travel there in a statement published Monday.
The updated travel warning comes after bordering countries Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have stepped up security along the border over concerns about Russian Wagner mercenary forces exiled in the country.
The State Department, in its warning, encouraged Americans still in Belarus to depart the country immediately and categorized the country as a Level 4 risk, the highest security warning.
Why not earlier? Wtf
Because intelligence didn’t tell them to until now.
There’s always journalists, business people, tourists, and visiting family knocking around in these kinds of situations. This is the US Embassy officially warning those folks that they are in danger and that the US will have limited recourse if they find themselves in trouble.
Maybe it’s meant to mainly fuck with Russian intelligence? Don’t forget that we’re practically at war with them.
Where will Steven Segall go?
To a buffet? Probably.
He’ll join his Wagner buddies in Africa.
He’s probably pretending to fight walls.
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They’d be stupid if they weren’t. There’s a hot war involving a global / regional power happening on their border and the best way to keep it on the other side is to be prepared to repel any and all boarders.
I mean, they wouldn’t wanna be standing with their pants down
That would be the most stupid military decision since the most recent Ukraine invasion.
Not doing so would be.
To be clear we’re talking about preparing for war, not starting one.
I mean, Putler is known for making stupid military decisions so…
Umm…I hate to be the one to break it to you: see, there is this country called Ukraine. Small place. Next to Poland. Also next to Russia. Ukraine and Russia are currently, how should I put it…they are having a MASSIVE FUCKING WAR rn. So their neighbors are preparing for the inevitability it will spill over into Europe and Middle East.
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Hmm I wonder if it’s too late to go to North Korea instead?
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Now if they just could depart every other country on the planet, that would be great.
i see the americans are angry. even more reason they should depart!
They also have nukes. This is fucking terrifying.
I have nuke fatigue. I can’t be bothered to be afraid of them. Go ahead and throw them, whoever was brazen enough to do so will have their country wiped from the face of the earth faster than you can say “Enola Gay”. There’s no one self-destructive enough to seriously consider pushing that button.
“How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb.”
Well, now I’m worried about the mineshaft gap.
I have nuke fatigue. I can’t be bothered to be afraid of them.
Me as a GenX looking over at you… “First time?”
Boomers got you beat for sure, anyone that lived through the cold war.
I also suspect many people don’t truly appreciate just how devastating a nuke is - in the sense that hearing “blah blah destruction, mushroom cloud” a hundred times over seems to numb people to the concept. I did a deep dive into nuclear blast videos some time ago, just watching how destructive they are really made me realize I was one of these people who knew, but didn’t really “know”
I also suspect many people don’t truly appreciate just how devastating a nuke is
I spent more than 20 years living with the Cold War. I grew up next to Strategic Air Command, did the C.A.P. thing in the '80s, then did further NBC training as I got older. I’ve been on bases and in bunkers all over the place, including the one that Bush Jr hunkered in on 9/11. (Although not the Presidential Level.)
What I learned is that they have immense destruction of their immediate area. Depending on event factors though it’s quite possible to survive one going off in the next town over. The mega-removed is the societal collapse that follows a nuclear exchange; most people will die from lack of food, water, necessary medications and diseases that were previously preventable.
Peons like us don’t get a choice in whether it happens or not, so there’s no point in worrying about it.
i did a 2-3 week-long dive into nukes. if one is dropped on my city, i want to be at ground zero. very few people understand how devastating they are and no country on Earth is prepared for the ensuing crisis.
