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Belarus need to join NATO immediately, but I think it’s pretty urgent for Finland too. Putin is a vicious, unpredictable dictator who has already invaded one large European nation. People think he won’t invade Finland, but they also thought he wouldn’t invade Ukraine.

When you share a huge border with an aggressive psychopath, whose army is massively larger than yours, you need strong military allies.

Edit: nevermind, clearly my understanding of Eastern European politics is weak, shouldn’t have commented



Belarus is allied with Russia, they aren’t going to join.


Belarus is a very close ally of Putin, why would they ever join NATO? Ukraine was invaded from Belarus by Russia.


Belarus is with Putin. How is Belarus going to join NATO?!


Belarus could join NATO, but it would really require a successful revolution.


It's pretty clear that such a revolution isn't coming now. There is probably little grass-roots support for such a thing in Belarus, but more importantly, Putin would absolutely quash such a revolution now.

Therefore all talk of Belarus joining NATO is fantasy.

Fantasy isn't going to stop war in Ukraine.

Fantasy can only cause war.

Time to get real.




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