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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      That’s the point of MAD. If they launch nukes, they get nuked back 10 times harder. Even in their best case scenario, Russia and Belarus become radioactive holes in the ground. Worst case for everyone, they kill the whole world with them. We can’t let a rogue nuclear power do whatever they want because they have nukes. That’s why we have nukes too. Like 90% of the “muh escalation” people are Russia shills.

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        I never even suggested we let them do whatever we want. That doesn’t mean we provoke them into using their nukes.

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          I never even suggested we let them do whatever we want.

          That doesn’t mean we provoke them into using their nukes.

          Using that logic they can do whatever they want, as long as they back up their ‘want’ with nukes.

          I think there are things we should never let them do, even under threat of nukes. Muscovy needs hard red lines, else they’d just annex everything. That even means calling their nuke bluff from time to time.

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            Muscovy

            What year is it? Why do you libs do this shit where you think it’s clever using dumb names? Is that an ‘own’ or something?

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              Not sure if you want an actual answer, but the name “Russia” originally comes from “Kievan Rus”, and Kyiv is in … Ukraine. Renaming it to Muscovy (original name of the country) is then symbolically taking the name back.

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      Yes.

      It’s suicide for them if they do. We know our nukes work.

      Rather not let nuclear dictators have free reign on the world because “OMG they may nuke us”. Otherwise give em the keys to the world right now and surrender.

      There’s an old American proverb: LIVE FREE OR DIE