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1.02.2021, 14:22
What is the risk of sending Belarusian peacekeepers to Syria?
The news about the hypothetical sending of Belarusian soldiers to Syria has a whole wave of profound consequences, writes the Telegram-channel “Reflection and Reaction”.
At the first level, everything looks good: we will help our brothers-Russians, we will fight terrorism thus improving our image, and finding a certain number of hotheads who are ready to risk their lives for money or for adrenaline is not a problem at all for any country.
But on a deeper level, this means a certain collapse of the image of the Belarusian army. There are two pillars on which the officer s idea to link his life with the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, and not with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, although they pay more there. These two pillars are “to serve near home” and “they will send us to a hotspot”. Whatever the salaries in the Russian army, there was always an understanding that fo