There was an attempt to shoot down the helicopter of the President of Belarus

[RickyD]

And I am replying that our country IS better because we are not puppets of MOSCOW and not a dictatorship and even though our elections are flawed we actually have real elections.  

And I'll poke at Belarus all I want.  It's a sucky little country that is just a puppet of MOSCOW and no one gives a rats backend about it.   The leader wasn't authentically elected and is Putins lap dog.  Might was well get it over with and just say they are Russians.  

If you want to care about this guy and actually believe his cockamamie story about Ukraine .. go ahead.   I don't.

Are they though...I mean 2020 we saw what they wpuld do to get their way...those elections were as sham as any other countries we pick on. Occums Razor says it more likely all countries are as corrupt as the worst of them...and they just hide it better or dress it up more.

The saddest part here is that no conflict would have happened without a US state dept backed coup of the last leader. So they want to join NATO...they are part of Russia's sphere of influence...going into another nuclear nations sphere is inviting trouble. Same as if Russia backed a coup of Mexico and installed a new puppet gov friendly to them. Literally the same situation reversed...and we would level mexico city tomorrow over it...