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.

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    1 year ago

    Considering the videos I’ve seen from Poland, it kinda feels like they’re actually preparing for a massive war.

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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.

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        1 year ago

        Never seen these videos taken by people of huge columns of tanks going to the borders?

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          No, I haven’t seen them, I’ve been trying to stick to this fedaverse shit and not go back to reddit.

          Post some sources/links brother

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            I usually see those on Telegram so I can’t find any shareable link.

            But you can find sources stating what I said with a simple Google search.

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      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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        It’s astonishing you managed to be so fucking toxic without adding nothing new to the discussion and without even understanding the context of this decision.

        After Wagner PMC tried they small coup, Putin or whoever it was, ordered them to be stationed in Belarus, and many of these mercenary troops are actually quite close to Poland’s borders. This and the fact Russia is moving part of its nuclear arsenal to Belarus triggered Poland into moving massive numbers of military assets to its borders recently.