It could just be doctrinal rigidity.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 8:54 amThere's been an increase in Russian tanks and, notably, air defence moving into Belarus lately. Tanks I can understand - the Russian system relies on using existing troops for training recruits, a system that cannot really cope when the existing troops are all either in combat or lying face down in a mud filled crater just east of Bakhmut. The tanks are thus going so Belarusian troops can train the newly mobilised Russians. Air defence might be for the same reason, but god knows at this point. It's possible Russia's anticipating possible strikes against them in Belarus.Brightonian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:23 amNow Lukashenko is supposedly in fear of his life: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/be ... r-AA14FtjVbjn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 11:10 pmBelarusian foreign minister has just died suddenly. No indication yet as to whether it was falling out of a window natural causes, or natural causes natural causes.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/be ... 022-11-26/
Makei, the Belarusian foreign minister, was supposedly poisoned to keep Lukashenko in line. All feels a bit weak to me.
The USSR sent SAMs including SA-7 (so no use except against aircraft) when invading Afghanistan.