REFERENCE: The Belarus Move (Part II)

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https://time.com/6167332/putin-russian-orthodox-church-war-ukraine/

Encouraged by Putin’s “special operation,” Russian Orthodox nationalists are excitedly recalling the prophecy of a twentieth-century saint from Chernihiv, now one of Ukraine’s beleaguered cities. “Just as the One Lord God is the indivisible Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” this monk fortold, “so Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus together are Holy Rus’ and cannot be separated.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss

In early 1938, under increasing pressure from pro-unification activists, Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced that there would be a referendum on a possible union with Germany versus maintaining Austria's sovereignty to be held on 13 March. Portraying this as defying the popular will in Austria and Germany, Hitler threatened an invasion and secretly pressured Schuschnigg to resign. A day before the planned referendum, on 12 March, the German Heer crossed the border into Austria, unopposed by the Austrian military.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko

Lukashenko heads an authoritarian government and has referred to himself as the "last dictator" in Europe. Elections are not considered to be free and fair by international monitors, opponents of the regime are repressed, and the media is not free.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State

The Union State, or Union State of Russia and Belarus, is a supranational union consisting of Belarus and Russia, with the stated aim of deepening the relationship between the two states through integration in economic and defense policy. Originally, the Union State aimed to create a confederation; however, both countries currently retain their independence.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lukashenko-on-alleged-russian-plans-to-take-over-belarus-by-2030-there-might-have-been-such-a-document/ar-AA17VBGP

Belarusian dictator Alexander has reacted to a document, featured in a joint investigation by the Kyiv Independent and a group of U.S. and European media outlets, detailed Russia's future steps to take complete control of Belarusian political, economic, and military spheres by 2030 ... Speaking to local journalists at a sporting event on Feb. 25, Lukashenko said the document allegedly detailing Russia's plans to overpower Belarus and dismantle its independence “might have been” written three years ago.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_for_Democracy_and_Rights_of_Nations

The Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations (Russian: Сообщество за демократию и права народов), also commonly and colloquially known as the Commonwealth of Unrecognized States, rarely as CIS-2 (Содружество непризнанных государств, СНГ-2), is an international organization in Eastern Europe uniting several states in the former Soviet Union, all of which have limited to no recognition from the international community.

 

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-commonwealth-of-independent-states.htm

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is also known as Russian Commonwealth. It is an organization that was formed by nine of the fifteen former Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ukraine and Turkmenistan are associate members while Georgia withdrew from the organization in 2008. The Baltic countries including Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia are not members by choice. The aim of the organization is to coordinate authority in areas such as trade and security and promoting joint prevention of armed conflict and crime.

 

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