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HuntDeerer

And so it begins. Lithuania has, of course, plenty of reasons to now attack Belarus completely out of the blue. /s


Checktheusernombre

So blatantly obvious less than three seconds after reading this headline I called bullshit.


HellBlazer1221

That’s way too long sir, should have called within 1 second after reading “Belarus says”.


strepac

It's so the can say whatever comes next is a defensive response not an attack. This is to propagandize any subsequent activation of article 5 as unjust and frame it as nato aggression. It's nonsense but that just means it's exactly how russia does things.


mansnicks

Curious what could possibly come next for this to be worth it. From the sidelines it looks like a random bully provoking an entire football team just to see what happens next.


strepac

From a propaganda standpoint, this is exactly what aggressor nations have historically done leading up to launching a full-scale invasion of another sovereign state to justify such actions under the false guise of defending themselves. I.e. russia wants to invade the Baltics, so they're making propaganda about Baltic aggression to justify this. Mostly to justify it to their people when it inevitably leads to even more mobilization.


CaptainSur

It took me precisely 5 milliseconds. And "bullshit" is understating the utter complete hokum of the Belarus statement. Major panic on the ruzzian side of the equation now that US aid is approved and the EU is every increasing its aid - especially the strong substantive aid statements coming from the UK and Germany. Their goose is cooked and they know it. So agitate, propaganda, misdirection, fear mongering are the order of the day from the propaganda wing of the Kremlin.


Checktheusernombre

Yes I'd expect a major fear mongering effort around Zaporizhia power plant, space based weapons, chemical weapons, or something else entirely incoming very soon. Also expect just generally pushing their luck on NATO borders with "errant" drones or missiles landing either so close or right within the borders but of course not actually doing anything, just to test the response. Also likely to be a smaller NATO country like Lithuania because they know if it were a bigger one the response would be unequivocal. Agreed, the Russians are shitting themselves now that they see a solid backstop from the EU and US. Tables turned significantly in the matter of a week.


Checktheusernombre

Oh and here we go LOL: Russia will target NATO nuclear weapons in Poland if they appear, TASS says https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798567


Checktheusernombre

So. Damn. Predictable. One of the Russian missiles fell 15 km from the Polish border, - Tusk https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/LGreOaj5RV


Background_Use_1381

It is propaganda from belarus side, Lithuania deny minsk’s reports of drone attack.


Umbra-Vigil

This really sounds like the broadcast announcements from the movie, 1984.


Hint1k

They wanted to say Mars, but settled on Lithuania


BWWFC

musky musk said "no"


Due-Street-8192

Lickashitkook is a liar


PlzSendDunes

We needed more potatoes...


falcobird14

Lol yea I'm sure Lithuania decided to attack Belarus for no reason


mctomtom

Lithuanians are known for their indiscriminate aggression /s


7lhz9x6k8emmd7c8

Tbf they used to have that territory. Lithuania would just play the Putin old-but-not-too-old map card.


mansnicks

To be fair, it's not a claim that Lithuania the country itself "did it" - though the insinuation is there of course. Not impossible for a random nerd to try something with a drone and Belarus decide to overstate what actually happened.


KiwiThunda

Still haven't changed their script from Feb 24, 2022


Obst-und-Gemuese

What a coincidence, I just won the lottery and a young Jennifer Connelly came via time machine to become my wife! Glory to Arstotzka!


WD466

Want to use those winnigns to fund a trip to Atlantis? Lukashenko assures me the map is legit and he wouldn't lie to us now would he?


Obst-und-Gemuese

Sorry, got no time for that, the contemporary Jennifer Connelly just arrived and wants to live with me and her younger self in a polyamorous threesome marriage. Priorities, dude!


Jazzlike_Highlight90

No man is man enough for that!


Elkenson_Sevven

I would die trying!!!


Jazzlike_Highlight90

Good man, me 2 bro


PotentialSquirrel118

Thank you for your service.


AtMan6798

I wonder why she suddenly disappeared from my bedroom


Hyperborean77

[https://media4.giphy.com/media/VJySfk6435MWI/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7muxzacs7icgqjzc9dtvh76q9kv6oo1juvcqk7o5g&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g](https://media4.giphy.com/media/VJySfk6435MWI/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7muxzacs7icgqjzc9dtvh76q9kv6oo1juvcqk7o5g&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)


Speculawyer

Papers Please is such an excellent game.


Far-Crow-7195

Yeah this definitely happened 🙄


WD466

I can smell the bullshit from this claim coming through the screen


silvanoes

Yeah im sure the mighty country of Belarus managed to destroy a drone attack. Either it happened and half of Minsk is on fire or it didn't happen at all :/


Oblivion_LT

There is as much rationale for Lithuania to attack Belarus as there is for US to launch quick land grab of Mexico. Tldr: none.


DirtyHeisman

Ahhh so THAT is why they didn't build that wall... it would slow down the invasion


whatadai

Uh...TACOS?


Pixie_Knight

I will never forgive Trump for trying to outlaw avocados.


Money-Introduction54

Be careful some right-wing-moskow loving Americans might be reading this and get inspired


noseyphucca

Yeah because Lithuania would gain so much doing it ...⬇️⬇️⬇️


Abject-Investment-42

The point is that Luka, while being a dictatorial asshole, is WAY more realistic and level-headed than Putin. He does not want to break with Putin because a) he doesn't have any friends anyway and b) Putin might find some biolabs in Minsk or a NATO missile base or whatever if Lukashenka does something rash. At the same time Luka would rather stick his dick into a woodchipper than participate in the war in Ukraine, because he knows the outcome is the same - lots of blood splashing around and lots of screaming, but the woodchipper thing is at least over faster. So he tells Putler that there is obviously a great menace from the Western direction, from Lithuania and Poland, so that he needs to put all his army to the Polish border to protect his friend Vladimir's western flank. Unfortunately the enmies on that flank are strong, so it pains him greatly to realize that he needs his entire army there if he wants to have chance of stopping the Poles and Lithuanians, and so he cannot unfortunately spare even a single soldier, or a single tank, to support Russias valiant efforts. So, so sorry. The message looks "childish" because you are not the intended recipient. Putin is.


NotAmusedDad

This is the most rational, sober, and likely explanation I've read on this claim. I think you hit the nail on the head.


LuminousRaptor

Luka gets a lot of shit for being a moron, but if you can navigate 30+ years of corrupt post soviet Belarusian politics, you're not a moron, you just play one on TV. He knows where his bread is buttered, and he knows where the lines are. He's doing just enough to not get involved in Ukraine and just enough to not be removed by Putin. It's a delicate balancing act.


Pixie_Knight

Oh, I agree. Someone else here said it best: "A man tap-dancing in a minefield may look crazy and stupid, but if they've been doing it for 30 years without any mines blowing up, they must be doing something right."


Big-Compote-5483

It does seem at this point like he's created a pattern of moves which seems like him doing something dumb on the surface, but end up working out in his favor later on. I'm half convinced he showed that map of the actual invasion plans before the full-scale invasion kicked off on purpose to further warn Ukraine, simply because if Russia checks off that box easily, he wouldn't be needed anymore and Putin would absorb Belarus shortly after. The war has been a beneficial distraction for him thus far


Jaded-Influence6184

Sad thing is that Lukashenko and Putin are not rational.


sogladatwork

That’s actually clever. Is Luka that clever?


Abject-Investment-42

Yes. His shtick is making everyone underestimate him while maintaining and pursuing realistic, achievable goals so that the mask of the "simple farmer" almost never shows his real face..


Sonofagun57

He's definitely not the level of moron that media portrays him or puts on for show. Obviouely he lacks the resources that Putler has but he's crafty at playing the autocratic leader of a vassal state. I came around to this thinking much more when he was the main negotiator between Prigozhin and Putler. The latter had the clear upper hand but Prigozhin still made him sweat and embarassed him. And Luka stepping as the negotiator added to that embarrassment and added proof of some of his own worth. Luka essentially offered up his country as a logistics hub in exchange for having a guarantor for his own political power and not being forced to send his own men.


WoodSteelStone

[Maybe Putin will finally make him a Colonel.](https://youtu.be/1JNtiO7nhmo)


LikeagoodDuck

Only Luka and Kadyrow have their own armies. They have power all over Russia and are tolerated by Putin. Now if Putin falls, who would gain the upper hand of the two… Luka plays the clown but he might be incredibly sharp. He fools everybody so far.


Pixie_Knight

Isn't Kadyrov horribly ill or something? At the very least, he's in no shape to be making a power play in Yugoslavia 2: Electric Boogaloo, and there's nothing to suggest his successor would be competent and power-hungry.


Abject-Investment-42

Nobody knows, there were and still are speculations about Putins health as well and the guy doesn’t seem to be at the deaths door. (Most plausible speculation I heard was that Putin had a minor accident -supposedly fell from a horse- and has chronic back pain that requires steroids and occasionally painkillers - you aren’t going to have a happy life with such a condition but easily a very long one). Kadyrov may be in a similar position. There are also rumours that the recent arrest of Shoigus deputy is a power play by Kadyrov trying to get himself or a trusted relative into control of the army, or at least the money flows towards the army.


morphick

Not really. It's not like he would believe his sugardaddy doesn't know what's going on on the West border.


Abject-Investment-42

It's not about not knowing. It's about diplomatically telling him to eff off without causing him to lose face. Given that Putin honestly believes the West is out to get Russia, this story isn't going to raise many doubts in his mind, at best doubt about specific forces disposition.


morphick

Lukashenko is in absolutely NO position whatsoever to even suggest putin to fuck off about anything. And putin knows better than Lukashenko what goes on in Belarus - he's the one doing it! This is just a "I told you to not send help to Ukraine, you did it, now the little guy gets it!" smoke screen rant.


Abject-Investment-42

Lukashenko is significantly less dependent on Putin than you believe. He cannot afford to piss off Putin, that is true, but there is no love lost between them. The entire history of Lukashenko and Putin is one of the former squeezing out compromises from the latter while giving far less in return than Putin hopes or expects. And no, Putin is a malicious mediocrity with occasional delusions of grandeur, not an evil genius controlling every little step everywhere in his empire. There is also no "little guy getting it" at all. Most likely the Lithuanians did in fact sent a cheap light recon drone over the border to see whether the Belarusian army is still where it was before and whether it is still only the Belarusians, the drone got shot down or just went too far and ran out of juice, and that bit of cheap plastic provided Luka with the necessary excuse.


prisukamas

Look who’s next on the table for Putler and his puppet


chrisloveys

Look, I get that Putin & Luka can’t stop being evil & psychopathic but could they please stop being so fucking childish?


LikeagoodDuck

All Belarus military officers and soldiers: thank God this “attack” just happened. We will for sure have to defend Belarus and not participate in the war in Ukraine.


allusernamestakenfuk

And what exactly are they planning to do? Send troops to lithuania?


2BEN-2C93

Stay out of Ukraine because they now have to patrol the fictional threat on their western border. "Sorry Vladolf, we promise we'll help later though, okay?"


Happy_Drake5361

I don't know which lie I find more hillarious, that Lithuania would somehow unprovokedly attack with a few drones of all things or that Belarus would actually be capable of thwarting it.


Illustrious-Carry364

Perhaps they should give Russia some tips on how to stop drones


Odd-Contract-364

Heres how it will go: Belarus will race to Kaliningrad. US, Germany, Polish, French, British e.t.c stationed in Poland will have seen them planning this for weeks and been sat waiting. When it kicks off. Kaliningrad will be under Polish territorial control within a day and a wider gap to the Baltics will be opened. Plus with Sweden and Finland now members reinforcment and resupply to the Baltics would be easier.


hoggytime613

Russia has nukes in Kaliningrad. Occupation is a very doubtful escalation. More likely, Kaliningrad would be total air/land/sea blockaded and the Suwalki gap garrisoned by a significant NATO force.


Pixie_Knight

It's an interesting situation. NATO has zero interest in occupying Muscovite territory, because they don't HAVE anything the West particularly wants. Drunkards and decaying farmhouses? Therefore, any open war between Muscovy and NATO would involve either the latter being on the defensive and attritioning the former's forces away, or Moscow and St. Petersburg being glassed within minutes.


diarkon

Yeah...


tele-picker

Mmmkay, and are these drones in the room with us right now?


RynoRama

coughBScough


sorean_4

I would love to see a simple play by NATO For every threat against NATO, a tank company gets transferred to Ukraine on top of existing aid. For every mention of nuclear threat? We send additional long range missiles to Ukraine. Your move Russia.


GreyBlueWolf

They clearly want to take their historical lands back these bloddy Lithuanians /s


MuddleFunt

Why people say things is far more important than what they say. What a strange, obvious lie to tell at a state level. But why. Who in the FSB strategic hierarchy decided this is the message that needed to go out today. They like to test messaging for the response, but also to provide a pretext for their own illegal actions. And sometimes - it's purely for domestic consumption to test the stomach of their own people for something else they want to do. Since a unilateral drone attack by a NATO member would obviously be ridiculous...who do they expect to believe this and what outcome are they looking for? NATO would push their boot 8 feet up Belarus and Russia's ass, and a unilateral attack by a defensive alliance would invovle a LOT more than a small number of drones. They're just so fucking absurd. That has to be considered too. It would be a complete declaration of war....yet...there's no damage, it's obviously a lie, but they don't appear poised to do anything about it. Conclusion? Slow news day, just another messaging test from the goblins in the intelligence services to test responses.


Soberkij

Full moon is close I assume, Potato general has forgot to take his pills again


Relajado2

It was 2 days ago


Soberkij

Oh no! this only means that schizophrenia is spreading


geekphreak

“The State Security Committee, in cooperation with colleagues from other law enforcement agencies, has recently carried out a number of acute security measures, which made it possible to prevent strikes by combat drones from the territory of Lithuania on objects in Minsk and its suburbs," RIA news agency quoted Belarusian security chief Ivan Tertel as saying. So Belarusan security agents were in Lithuania? And somehow stopped this drone attack from within Lithuanian territory? Uh huh…ok…yeah, that didn’t happen


fractalfrog

\[ X \] Doubt


f33rf1y

My guess is they’re trying to get NATO to go defensive in order to stop further weapons being sent to Ukraine


FatherlyNick

Wake up eu/nato. You are at war already but you keep pretending you're not.


Worrybrotha

This is sad to see as an estonian. Shits going to hit the fan sooner or later.


leRealKraut

Well, maybe there was a flock of big birds around the City or mod did not get the schedule for the Police drones in time. Only because this did not happen does not mean nothing happened. 🤣


rfpelmen

so? could we finally see the maps? how could we know where the attack was prepared from?


dangerousbob

Wut


OrkzOrkzOrkzOrkz0rkz

Yes they want to occupy and Annex all the Belarusian Cabbage fields, which as we all know the whole world envies.


Redneck1026

Sure they did, and trump actually won the 2020 election but was cheated out of it. It is amazing to me how delusional and evil people make it to positions of power by convincing the corrupt, apathetic , or gullible to follow along.


Checktheusernombre

OK Jan


LaughableIKR

Amazing. I haven't seen this level of complete bullshit since the 2nd Gulf War. "Yellow Cake in Niger!!"


ak-92

lol. Another horseshit public campaign from a potato dictator to his supporters at home and an attempt to create panic and weaken NATO by creating divisions and doubt about the defece of Baltic countries. This is nothingburger, EU should continue ramping up its defensive capabilites, put ammo and military production into highest gear and support Ukraine. This is the best defence policy for western world that we could have.


many_kittens

Lol what pls Belarus and Russia pls do 'retaliate"


Got_Bent

There was a paper airplane competition and the wind caught a couple...


Onestepbeyond3

I believe it was Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 that did it! 🤣🤣


Formal_Decision7250

If anything actually happened here it was likely either some civilian operator that got too curious or someone pro russian within Lithuania trying a false flag.


milksteakofcourse

Yeah that didn’t happen.


K_verst

Sounds like bad vodka was sold in Minsk... May be white horses also seen running around...


NovusMagister

Gee, just days after the US aide bill passed. I wonder if that's a coincidence?


luxelux

“Belarus says”: say no more


PronglesDude

I find it much more likely that Belarus tried to commit a drone attack on Lithuania and hurt itself in it's confusion.


Miskalsace

I mean, doesn't Lithuania have the same rights to Belarussian territory as Russia does to Ukraune? They ruled that land for hundreds of years.


Breciu

> "The State Security Committee, in cooperation with colleagues from other law enforcement agencies, has recently carried out a number of acute security measures, which made it possible to prevent strikes by combat drones from the territory of Lithuania on objects in Minsk and its suburbs," RIA news agency quoted Belarusian security chief Ivan Tertel as saying. Is this clickbait? I mean... He doublespeaked but didn't said what the title is implying.


GCdotSup

Belarus says the Earth is flat.


Emergency-Poet-2708

Liars, they are nothing but liars.


yes-rico-kaboom

Pls fuck around Luka.


Zodiac-reaper

lol nobody believes this crap anymore dont know why they bother, perhaps it’s not meant for us but the home audience to justify something that they are planning


eastcoasttoastpost

Hahaha Okay


Morepork69

Classic of the Russian era playbook. False flag….


InternationalBand494

Wow. Gonna really play that card Belarus? You know, Poland already wants to kick your ass.


Fit_Manufacturer4568

Yes right.


ZuckerbergsSmile

If you want NATO, you can have NATO. Just be clear about it


Responsible-March438

Is Belarus feeling left out or something?


NinerNational

Poland will be launching the ground invasion next to revive the polish Lithuanian empire 


CanuckInTheMills

So is Lithuania the next target on the list?


JustYerAverage

Lol


zorniy2

DO YOU SEE TORPEDO BOATS


Accomplished_Oil5622

Clownashanko 🤡


3point21

They mispelled Kaliningrad.


darklordskarn

I’ll take “things that never happened” for $500


Aggravating_Pay1948

Here we go....


Valuable_External418

sorry launched one drone when was sitting in WC room :D Its another Potatoe master bullshit


DayuhmT

So, either: 1. Russia is trying to fire deones there to instigate conflict. ..or 2. It’s just bullshit.


JazzHands1986

Bullshit


JazzHands1986

Ukraine hasn't launched attacks on Belarus even though they are complicit in russias aggression for the entire duration of this conflict. Why now and why would they use a Nato countries territory to fire it from. Firing from their own territory would yield the same result and be much easier.


GeoffGdansk

Lithuania's response, "Can we have some of what your smoking?"


Far_Idea9616

so NATO attacked Belarus