Lukashenko Says Belarus Is Preparing for War, Plans to “Mobilize Units”

Lukashenko says things like this so often now that its hard to tell how much is actual military planning and how much is political theatre for Russia and domestic audiences. Still, Belarus becoming more militarised over the last few years is definitely real, especially with how closely tied they are to Russia now. Thats probably what worries neighbouring countries more than the headline itself.

Lukashenko is a jabroni

I kind of doubt that Belarus is going to attack anyone soon. But this rhetoric forces Ukraine to consider an attack from Belarus. (Russian units did attack into Ukraine from Belarus territory, after all.) 1. The renewed threat forces Ukraine's military leaders to spend time considering this avenue of attack, which leaves them with less time to work on the active military engagements to the east. 2. It forces Ukraine to spend intelligence resources to gauge the probability and sincerity of the threat. Less time to spend elsewhere. 3. Ukraine may shift manpower to their border with Belarus because of the threat, leaving other fronts with less. China does a similar routine with Taiwan. China so frequently sends squadrons of jets towards Taiwan, in attack formation... and then they peel off at the last moment, and return home. Each time this happens, Taiwan has to scramble fighters and air defense assets to respond to the *potential threat*. This happens over and over again, week after week. The point is to psychologically build up the impression that it is always going to play out like this. So IF / WHEN China actually follows through in such an attack, it would be surprise for the defenders. Further if itchy-trigger fingers fire too early, then China has a "provocation" that they can cite for their domestic audience, as a "cause for war." These lethal games they play. Furthermore, these antagonistic saber-rattling tactics have become normalized. Lowering the bar of what ought to be considered expected of participants in the international community. By slowly ratcheting up the pressure like this, over years, they strengthen their military's position without any one event that draws international condemnation (that could lead to sanctions).

Hey Luka, there's a fairly demilitarized country to your east. They have a lot of oil. Seize your destiny.

His army should deal with him before he get's them killed for nothing...

Wouldn't it be better to NOT tell everyone if you really wanted to prepare for war? Posturing much?

Let's hope the belarusians raise up against their dictator and this bullshit.

how is he still fucken alive…. im 44 and i feel like he has been Belarus president since WWII….

I wish one day I get to see a free Belarus.

HOI4 when I play as a small country with 2 divisions

Belarus ('s government) always says just enough to placate big papa Putin, but never does anything, because they know they'd eat sh\*\* and d\*\*. It's been like this since day 1, their threats mean nothing, in the same way Russia's billionth "final red line!!!!" threats mean nothing.

He's not doing a thing unless Putin is forcing him to. More than likely, this is just to distract Ukraine a bit as Russia is getting their asses handed to them right now on the battlefield. They're losing more men than they can recruit.

The ol’ Bela-ruse

Belarus honey this isn’t the time

Sneak twist: he's going to war with Antartica.

Belarus has a nominal GDP the size of Maine. Who are they going to war with?

A war with whom

Who are they fighting? Potatoes?

So sick of these thumb looking old farts with their wars. Get a room already..

*“We will selectively mobilize units in order to prepare them for war. God willing, it can be avoided,” Lukashenko said.* \- It CAN be avoided you idiot: Just dont?

Mobilize units and get pounded by 50,000 drones. Modern Warfare is almost at the point where it’s just dumber than hell to even try to fight it out. Which probably means the U.S. is going to invade Iran

This is just Kremlin propaganda. Russia is bleeding money like crazy. They budgeted to have a deficit of 3.8 trillion rubles for 2026 and by April they were down 5.9 trillion rubles, so by April they were already 1.5 times over their yearly deficit. Putin is starting to become more and more inpopular domestically. It has always been his style to launch big threats but then do exactly nothing except keep throwing people into the meat grinder and change what the paid trolls should focus on. If White Russia (no one should call them Belarus, they changed their name because they didn't want to be connected to Russia but Lukashenko is Putin's obedient little dog) joins the war I really think it will be hard for other countries to not become more involved.

War with whom?

The very real and very free state of Belarus that is in no way directly manipulated by the Kremlin

Mobilize the troops??!! BOTH of them?! The Ukraine Belarus border has to be up there with the North Korea South Korea border in terms of fortification and preparation by now, Ukraine troops are amongst the most battle experienced in the world especially at drone warfare. Belarus has 60k untested, Ill equipped, unmotivated chocolate soldiers that will melt in the heat of battle. Lukashenko can't commit them to the war without risking losing control and being ousted, Belarusians already sabotaged themselves to prevent involvement before by burning all the electrical control panels for the railways to prevent troop movement. This is just pootin trying to apply any pressure he's still capable off as he attempts to "wind down the war" before the Russian economy implodes. Old man yells at cloud is all I take away from this headline. Edit: spelling

Wild Card for 2026, he's actually preparing to invade Russia live out his dream of taking over the Kremlin.

Preparing for war with who? Ukraine?

He's just reaffirming to the world that he's still as mad as a box of frogs.

F*** war

lets hope the Belarusian people see what is happening in Ukraine and think twice... and overthrow putashenko

So Russia is running out of troops, so he's doing this false again to tie up Ukrainian trips along the boarder

Mobilizing units to attack / defend from whom exactly? I mean I get it... Strengthen the Bulwarks at the last moment. Lose a division. "oooh I saved you from communism. - but I am a good communist " or "oooh I rushed to your assistance in smashing the Ukraine - I am a good communist."

I can’t believe Lukashenko would admit Russia is losing like this

So Putin told him to invade Ukraine because Russia can't get the troops. Russia sounds pretty desperate at this point.

Belarus is prepairing for a 3 day special operation they mean?

Lukashenko says exactly what Putin tells him to say.

Prepare for tens of thousands of Belarusian’s to be mulched by Ukrainian drones and Russian “friendly” fire.

Lukashenko is too weak of a leader for Belarus to be a serious military threat, and even if they get a lot of help from Russia, it’s not going to stop the UN from simply walking in and telling them “no”. What you’re seeing now is the last death throes of the Russian relationship because Putin has lost so much power because Ukraine is winning in the war that Russia started, that he no longer has the ability to protect or keep to the Belus negotiations prior; what you’re seeing here is the leader of Belarus effectively being forced to show support because the people that he supporting are so weak they can’t do it themselves. After they fail, we will see them get angry at Russia.

This is why NATO/EU forces should garrison the northern border of Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to fight in the south and east.

Will he take over Russia ? The country who lost its army for nothing.

For a war ???? With who ??? Poland would destroy whole Belarus army in a few days . Ukraine is fighting Russia and Russians can’t win. Other post Russian republics would win with Belarus also . He just needs to cover his failed government .

So they are going to round up all their vintage Soviet era rolling stock that still works, drive fast as they can to almost the border and then turn around like they have done in the past and call it a day.

More "fertilisier" for the sunflower seeds growing in the nurturing ukrainian soil!

Lukashenko is a weak puppet but would run to the hills if he thinks he’d lose… and he will, as his own army will turn on him rather than be thrown into a meat grinder by Putin.

But of course!; the tone has been set. Just like the United States attacking Iran for Israel. tRump has played a big part in and allowed this ‘tone’ of war to flourish in the world. Along with his best friends Nitwityahoo and Putin, our tRump was allowed and caused this situation.

It doesn't matter what any of these clowns say, from Lukashenko to Putin to Trump, it's never in good faith and usually just straight-up lying.

Presumably the poison dwarf is pushing him into Ukraine. If the belarussian forces have any sense, they will rebel.

That’s not going to end well for him

I feel sad for the Belarusian Army, police and immigration. They all look so tired malnourished and inexperienced. This is from my visit last year. You could see they were just barely hanging on.

Why are these old authoritarian farts living forever..

Belarus declared war on New Zealand? Saved you a click!

Putin is obviously running out of his own meat to grind.

Every violent human act is not acceptable. It is nonsense and is only the evidence that people are not capable to.think in terms of honour and intelligence but animal reaction.

If Lukashenko don’t say it he will fall out the window.

Imagine being the leader of a large 10 million country, next to Poland, next to Latvia, next to Lithuania, all EU countries and then willingly sucking Putin’s d***.

Belarus is just a Russian puppet state. Joke country.

Against who exactly? If they tried to attack Ukraine, it would be a literal gift for Ukraine. It would mean they could move troops into Belarus and potentially stop other incoming routes for Drones. It would also mean that Russia would need to move troops into Belarus to prop up the forces there, which would take troops away from other locations on the front. In a war where Russia has done some wildly stupid things, this would be near the top of the list to let Belarus get involved in anyway other then what it is now. Long and short, it's not happening.