Ex-Soviet Nations Likely to Reject Russia, Belarus Calls to Form New USSR

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reportedly have plans to strengthen their "Union State" and are looking to attract other former members of the dissolved Soviet Union, but the likelihood of other ex-USSR republics joining seems low in the face of the Ukrainian invasion.

Belarus has remained one of Russia's top allies since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War in late February, which drew condemnation from around the globe. But reports from Belarus' state-owned BelTA news agency indicate that Lukashenko and Putin are interested in taking the relationship between their countries to a more cooperative level in a move reminiscent of the former USSR, though authorities have yet to confirm these reports.

"We are building a single Union State on the new principles to ensure that everyone's interests are respected, that the sovereign independent states—Belarus and Russia—keep developing. I am sure that this union will attract other republics of the former Soviet Union," BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying during a meeting with Governor of Russia's Voronezh Oblast Aleksandr Gusev in Minsk on Thursday.

The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 and eventually grew to encompass 15 nations: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, according to History.com.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-soviet-nations-likely-to-reject-russia-belarus-calls-to-form-new-ussr/ar-AAWHSvG

Tough luck Pooty Poot.

[mitch96]

1. "Belarus Calls to Form New USSR". My guess is that putin told Lukashenko to say that..

Makes it look like there is some unity there..
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[RainCaster]

2. Go ahead & form a new USSR, then lose your seat on the UNSC

Russia should have lost that seat on the Security Council when they were no longer the USSR. Russia is a whole different entity. Now they can change again, and this time the UN should drop them from the UNSC.