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Brian Whitmore: While the world watches Ukraine, Putin is quietly occupying Belarus

by Brian WhitmoreFebruary 4, 2022
The change in Belarus’s geopolitical status over the past 18 months represents one of the most dramatic shifts in the security calculus in Eastern Europe since Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of Crimea.

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