Belarusians Being Prepared For War

The Belarusian army can now be sent to fight outside the country.

The new military doctrine adopted by the so-called All-Belarusian People’s Assembly strengthens the ties of Belarus to Russia, writes the website of the Belsat TV.

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Already on the first page of the document it is stated that Belarus is ready to defend the “common interests” of its military allies “using all means at the disposal of the state.”

It is fundamentally important that the new military doctrine allows the participation of the Belarusian army in armed conflicts outside the territory of Belarus.

“Fulfilling its allied responsibilities, the Republic of Belarus does not participate in military aggression, but recognizes the possibility of participating in an international armed conflict outside its territory within the framework of ensuring collective security and activities to maintain international peace and security,” says Article 37.

The updated doctrine even introduces a new concept — “coalition war”. It may also be the result of aggression against the so-called union state and the CSTO countries by the “geopolitical centers of power.”

The use of armed forces within the framework of allied agreements is generally given a separate section. At the same time, it cannot be said that Belarus has taken on any new obligations: in fact, those formulations that were long ago enshrined at the level of relevant international agreements within the Union State or CSTO were simply transferred to the doctrine. Thus, paragraph 20 of the joint military doctrine of the Union State states that “the participating states consider any actions using military force directed against any of the participating states as an attempt on the so-called union state as a whole and will take appropriate retaliatory measures using all the forces and means at their disposal.” Absolutely the same wording is now contained in Article 90 of the national doctrine.

But the attention to interaction with allies in the new document has indeed increased significantly. Military challenges now include, for example, an internal armed conflict on the territory of an ally country and the withdrawal of one of the organization’s members from the common military-political bloc (this point corresponds to Armenia’s withdrawal from the CSTO).

The deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus is now enshrined at the level of military doctrine and is called “an important component of the preventive deterrence of potential adversaries from unleashing armed aggression.” Nothing is said about the procedure and conditions for its use. It is interesting that the document left an unambiguous wording: “nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation.” That is, there are no hints that Belarus can somehow control nuclear warheads or at least influence their use.