You sanction us again? We'll freeze you, Lukashenko warns Europe, threatening to cut gas supply.

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

MOSCOW — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened Thursday to cut gas supplies to Europe as the European Union weighs new sanctions on Belarusian officials and entities, in a sharp escalation of tensions over a migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.

Lukashenko told Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko that if Europe imposes new sanctions, “you must not forgive them anything.”

Warning that Belarus would not tolerate the closure of its borders, he told “the leadership of Poland, Lithuanians and other brainless figures to think before speaking.”

European leaders blame Lukashenko for orchestrating the crisis in retaliation for European sanctions. They accuse him of opening Belarusian borders to migrants, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, who are trying to reach Europe through Belarus.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/belarus-threaten-europe-gas/2021/11/11/970c725c-42df-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html

[lonely bird]

1. Hey, Europe!

Get off the natural gas that comes from Putin’s Puppets.

If you have to import from elsewhere until such time then do so.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Volumes required makes thst impossible, and the gas is over there, not where it is consumed.

[orangecrush]

5. He makes threats

Sanction him till his nuts fall off, when his economy collapses his own people will take him out.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. The people will suffer more from sanctions, America has exceptional experience in taking out

any kind of undesired foreign leader by covert means, remember.

[orangecrush]

15. That

Is certainly true.


They didn't do very well with Castro, though.

Hundreds of tries.

They even tried the old exploding cigar trick.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Maybe good use could be made of American military might right here.

After all had no problem taking out Iran on a propagandized pretext, this is for real threats.

[Wednesdays]

7. Easier said than done.

Putin could back him up, and that would create a real mess.

[ruet]

11. The Paper Bear?

They aren't gong to do squat.

[christx30]

12. Unless you personally are going to volunteer and

grab a weapon and go over, I wouldn’t advocate for military intervention. It’d blow up with Putin sending troops. Now you have 2 super powers fighting. Many, many people will die.
I would not be willing to fight, so I would not say, “let’s go kick their asses!”

[DJDog]

24. When did we take out Iran?

Did I fall asleep? 🤣

[Champp]

4. Frigid Fugly Facism sucks

[Wednesdays]

6. "Do as I say, and no one gets hurt."

[DallasNE]

8. Another Example Of The Failure Of The World Order

There is a people crisis in the world stemming from the failure of governments following a trickle down policy that puts all of the money in the pockets of the super wealthy, whether they are alogarchs or ruthless dictators. Here we are seeing a clash of money that could further disrupt the world order. Expect to see more of this. Eastern Europe and South America are two areas of concern in this regard. Immigrants are not the cause of the problem they are the victims of the problem.

[FakeNoose]

10. Fascist tyrant says what?

[oldsoftie]

13. Good reason to use alternative energy sources. NOT Russia

Maybe fire those nuke plants back up?

[EX500rider]

14. I wonder how Russia will feel about his threat to cut off their gas sales. nt

[marie999]

16. Belarus will soon become part of the USSR.

It would be foolhardy for the U.S. to try anything militarily there. Assassinating Lukashenko would be illegal and also would not help. Putin would just replace him. Ukraine will also join the USSR soon because they know NATO won't help them. And then the Baltic States. Also if we attack Belarus, there go the 2022 and 2024 elections. The U.S. has its sphere of influence and Russia theirs.

[roamer65]

20. The USSR is gone.

It would be part of the Russian Federation, as with the illegal annexation of Crimea.

[marie999]

21. Putin is bringing it back.

[roamer65]

23. The Russian Empire, yes.

The actual communist USSR, no.

Russia is a fascist oligarchical autocracy now.

[maxsolomon]

17. Putin's attack dog.

Europe will back down; they have few options. He's got them over a barrel (of oil).

He's already crushed internal dissent, now he's provoking and saber rattling on his Northern border? He's not doing that without Putin's permission.

[Red Mountain]

18. They have Europe over a barrel

Not much to do other than just enough to keep the gas flowing and make plans to replace it asap.

If that's even possible.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Energy now. Food and water coming (or here now). It is not a pretty picture globally.

[hunter]

22. France is not so dependent on natural gas.

They closed their last coal mine twenty years ago.

Hmmmm... I wonder how they did that?

I've changed my mind up nuclear power. It's the only energy source that will get us out of this mess.

Solar and wind power will only increase our long term dependence on natural gas, which will only increase the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

In places like Germany this dependence is a political time bomb.