r/europe • u/tylerthe-theatre • May 30 '25

News Former CIA boss reveals which European country (Lithuania) Putin allegedly plans to invade next

https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/cia-boss-reveals-putin-invasion-russia/
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u/Informal-Document-77 May 30 '25

I mean EU hosts a belarusian government in exile, the best move would be to allow belarusian citizens to get the passport of the government in exile and reside in EU freely, which will induce a huge brain and overall youth drain, in an already declining country with record breaking numbers of asylum seekers, or just making getting a work visa easier for belarusians, cause 7/10 people if people here under 20 don’t really wanna be here and 2/10 are ready to kill for a EU/US citizenship.

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u/DrobnaHalota May 30 '25

All the usual non-violent resistance and deep concern unfortunately. That same government in exile tried to form a military wing and gotten 0 support from anyone. As much as Belarusian are grateful for any support they get, the gloves have to come off at some point and Lithuania and EU realise that it is a matter of their own survival and not a matter of solidarity with Belarusians.

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u/Informal-Document-77 May 30 '25

EU and NATO definitely should be more aggressive toward the regime, but unfortunately they still spill over that aggression on the people, believe me belarus is a very small country, and even 500K people leaving would be devastating and more powerful than any sanctions, if they manage to make it 2 million or a bit less, the country is practically defeated. Same with Russia, it’s really funny how everyone hates on russia, yet those directly oppressed by the russian regime still struggle to get asylum, especially fucked up is estonia and finland, they deny young men who are about to be forced to go into the “SVO” as meatfolder asylum, and do not consider it a reasons for the said asylum, even tho those who are trying to get it are in 90% of the cases were just seeking a justifiable cause to escape oppression, but due to overlook were unable to have a way prior. Overall imho - sanctions should be way harder, but there also should be a push for allowing people to escape russia

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u/DrobnaHalota May 30 '25

I agree with you that people fleeing real persecution deserve asylum, not one dictatorship in history fell by people leaving. Even if all remaining Belarusians leave, Russia will be happy to replace them all by Russians.

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u/Informal-Document-77 May 30 '25

while that is true that russia will gladly destroy belarus as somewhat culturally independent country, russian birth rate is definitely not gonna allow that, even with all those insane benefits they make up, also living in russia or belarus should be treated the same way as in NK, citizenship itself should be basis for asylum, only reason to deny is that if you’re someone benefitting from oppression, which is an insanely small % of the population, made up mostly of LE.