Lukashenko Prepares For World War III – ‘We Are On The Brink’

With the risk of a generalized conflict as the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Gaza Strip unfold simultaneously with the escalation in the Middle East intensifying, the fear and concern about the outbreak of World War III is growing. War.

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Europe’s largest since World War II, and fears that it will expand, combined with reports of the possible use of nuclear weapons, have raised concerns at a time when other conflicts are also flaring up.

In fact, in statements on Tuesday, the president of Belarus and a close ally of Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, brought these fears back to the fore and noted that his country had consolidated its plans to be “as prepared as possible” for a future confrontation. .

“The world has once again reached the brink,” he said during a meeting with senior officials in the country’s capital, Minsk. “We must prepare as much as possible to neutralize the dangers and threats,” he said in remarks carried by the state-run BelTA news agency. “There are reasons to worry about a World War III,” he added.

Lukashenko: “We have our finger on the trigger”

Belarus, a close and staunch ally of Russia, provided a springboard for Moscow’s forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Kremlin has routinely transferred nuclear weapons to the country, which has also hosted mercenary mercenaries, Wagner said after the failed Prigozhin coup and their withdrawal from Russian territory.

However, Belarus is not known to have committed troops to Russia’s fight in Ukraine and has advocated a ceasefire, although it regularly toes the Kremlin’s line on geopolitics and foreign policy.

According to Lukashenko, Minsk conducts joint military gymnasiums with Moscow, and training by Wagner’s mercenaries has “yielded results.”

As Newsweek reports, NATO is currently conducting its largest military exercise in Europe since the 1990s, dubbed Operation Steadfast Defender, which will last several months with approximately 90,000 troops participating.

Referring to the drills, Lukashenko said Minsk’s intelligence services were “keeping their finger on the trigger”, claiming that around 32,000 troops from NATO members had been deployed “in the immediate neighborhood of Belarus and Russia”.

“I would like to characterize the current phase of the cultural confrontation between East and West as follows: ‘The masks have completely fallen,'” Lukashenko added.

“We have to recognize how serious the situation is,” he continued. Two new divisions of S-400 anti-aircraft systems are now in service with the country’s military, the Belarusian president said, referring to the mobile, surface-to-air missile systems considered roughly equivalent to the US Patriot air defense systems. He also added that two other divisions are equipped with Iskander-M missile systems.