Belarus Revolution Thread

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It’s very possible that the military might step in and crush the uprising. If not the domestic military, I expect Russia to step in. No possibility that Russia will let this go the way of Ukraine and have the entire European border to be surrounded by hostile states.

I’m still surprised that Belarus has finally succumbed to a color revolution when it has survived for nearly 25 years while the governments of Yugoslavia, Georgia, and Ukraine were overthrown. Lukashenko has survived the economic crisis and revolutionary waves of the 2010s, yet it was the pandemic that brought the Belarusian state to the brink of a successful revolution.

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So I managed to read most of the report about the riot police joining the protestors:

https://www.dsnews.ua/world/u-dvoh-mistah-bilorusi-omon-vidstupiv-v-minsku-rostut-barikadi-09082020-394978

According to these reports, they refused to repress the protests in two cities- in one they retreat before the protestors, in the other they "lowered their shields to the applause of the protestors".

Yeah, Lukashenko is screwed if even the police are fed up with him.