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

      You don’t have a very good grasp of reality do you.

      There’s two possible outcomes here and neither of them are enslavement at the hands of the Russians. How are they going to do that, they can’t invade a country one 10th the size of the United States what are they going to do? But what they might do is launch missiles, nuclear or otherwise, in fit of peak.

      So the two outcomes are, they either do nothing, or they nuke us. There’s no scenario where they’re going to invade.

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        1 year ago

        Ofcourse there is such a scenario. We wouldn’t nuke them for a mundane evasion. We would, however, invoke article 5 and violently beat into their inferior military until they beg for mercy.