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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Call for diplomacy.

The Europeans have been doing that since the fall of the USSR. It got more intense after 2014. It doesn't work with Putin's Russia.

the US made treaties with Russia that stated NATO will not pass reunified Germany.

I'd ask you to prove that but we both know that no such Treaty ever existed.

Imagine how the US would react with Russian nukes on this side of the world. Say 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Happens all the time. Russian Nuclear Submarines on the East Coast, Russian Spy Ships hovering around Florida and Hawaii, and recently the Russians and Chinese started getting together to party off the coast of Alaska.

So it's not a question, we KNOW what the modern day response is. The US keeps an eye on it but otherwise continues to go about its business.

The Cold War is over. NATO should be gone.

Yes, I imagine that President Putin would like that very much.

I am not a Russian apologist or a tankie.

Said while spouting regurgitated and endlessly disproved Pro-Russian talking points. We all want "peace" bub, but rolling over and showing your belly is a poor way to get it.

I am a U.S. citizen.

So am I, of direct Lithuanian & German descent. My people came here Post WWII after seeing what the Russians were like first hand. Your call for appeasement is of no interest to me Mr. Chamberlain.