Opinion: US satellites are furious that they can do nothing with Belarus anymore
Nuclear weapons definitely mean that a country which possesses them could feel safer – as stated by Russian political scientists in their talk with the Belarus 1 TV channel when commenting on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow and Minsk have agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus
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“Nuclear weapons are an unequivocal argument that a country that possesses them feels safer. All the countries that did not possess nuclear weapons – such as Iraq, Libya or Syria – became objects of NATO’s military aggression in the past decades. Meanwhile, no aggressive actions are being carried out with regard to North Korea, which causes outright irritation of the United States and its allies – though the country possesses only small volumes of nuclear weapons,” political expert Vladimir Kireev said.
In turn, a military expert of the Centre for Strategic Conjuncture, Ivan Konovalov, noted, “The United States has always kept tactical nuclear weapons in Europe – not on its territory. Russia, by deploying such weapons in Belarus, is just making a mirror response, which should have been done many years ago. We constantly urged Americans to remove such weapons from Europe, but they failed to react – so countermeasures have been introduced by us.”
“Of course, this has a broader context, and I understand why there is such a fuss in Poland. This is not because it's a nuclear weapon: in Poland, they have started fussing because Belarus is now a country with which they can do nothing – though they really wanted to. It is clear now that they will break off their teeth. In general, the situation is developing logically, and it happened only because the United States has completely lost its shores. That is why their satellites in Eastern Europe, whose desire to shoot themselves in the foot is growing every single day, has thrown a tantrum. Let them get hysterical – and understand that Russia has a fairly large toolkit of countermeasures. These are not the last countermeasures to their actions,” the expert added.
Vladimir Putin made the aforementioned statement on March 25th in his talk with Rossiya 24 TV channel’s journalist, Pavel Zarubin. The Russian leader, in particular, said, “On April 3rd, we will start training the crew, and on July 1st, we will complete the construction of a special storage for tactical nuclear weapons on the Belarusian territory.”
Back in November 2021, Belarus’ President did not rule out the possibility of deploying Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. He said that in an interview to Dmitry Kiselyov, the General Director of Rossiya Segodnya international news agency. The Head of State was asked to comment on the NATO Secretary General’s recent statement about the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. “Well, I’ll then propose Putin to bring nuclear weapons back to Belarus," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. "What nuclear weapons do you mean?" Mr. Kiselyov asked in reply. The President then explained, “We will agree on what kind it will be. These will be nuclear weapons that will prove most effective in such an engagement. It's not for nothing that I said: we are ready for this move on the territory of Belarus. As a judicious landlord, I have destroyed nothing [of the USSR nuclear weapon infrastructure].”
