I don't even understand the conflict. I know people are fighting but who and why?

Edit: Thanks for the links everyone, and I'm sorry I asked.

  • HarryLime [any]
    2·
    4 years ago

    It's not that simple. Here's a private CIA contractor gleefully discussing the possibility of Belarus joining NATO and encircling Russia. This is extremely dangerous and makes the breakout of a war with Russia more likely.

      • HarryLime [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Lukashenko is shitty in a number of ways, but he came to power because he opposed privatization and neoliberalism. He's conducted successful anti-poverty measures that reduced poverty from nearly fifty percent to less than six percent. Belarus weathered the post-Soviet collapse better than the other ex-USSR states because of him.

        • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
          7·
          4 years ago

          Cool why does he have to rig elections to keep himself in power and beat protesters

          • HarryLime [any]
            1·
            4 years ago

            Because he fucked up covid. And there's a ton of corruption in Belarus that he presides over, as there is in every post-soviet country. This shit is complicated, and your snooty takes aren't really enlightening anything.

            • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
              10·
              4 years ago

              Keep jerking of dictators its going to only make me more leftcom

              • HarryLime [any]
                1·
                4 years ago

                I called him a misogynistic homophobe who stupidly said that tractors and vodka could cure covid.

                  • HarryLime [any]
                    1·
                    4 years ago

                    I said I don't want Belarus to turn into another NATO outpost because it could spark world war three.

                          • HarryLime [any]
                            1·
                            4 years ago

                            If you're interested in what actual Belarussian communists have to say about the situation and not just being a huge asshole, use google translate on this post.

                          • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
                            1·
                            4 years ago

                            Lol honestly fuck you. Anticommunist social democracy does it again! Just go ahead and fucking ban me. As the “anti-tankie” “left” slowly but surely gives into the anti-Russia war propaganda on the grounds that “well really, Putin, Assad, Juche, Iran, Cuba, America, the Soviet Union are all equally bad...” and devolves into liberal both-sidesism, I hope you remember that you’re responsible for helping axe a principled commitment to anti-US imperialism. I was never being ironic, fuck you and fuck this sub. You idiots have made me like Stalin more (who I literally think is bad) because I realize now he was essentially right about social fascism.