Wagner troops could be used to defend Belarus after they relocate from Russia, where they took part in a failed revolt last month, President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

Military personnel attached to Evgeny Prigozhin's private military company are being transferred to the country subject to "certain conditions," including that they can be deployed instantly if they're needed to "defend the state," he explained. "I'm absolutely not worried and not troubled that we'll have a certain number of these fighters stationed here [in Belarus]."

The likes of Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky have vowed that "they won't leave Belarus alone," Lukashenko said, adding that "he must react" to such threats as supreme commander of the armed forces. "The experience that Wagner and its commanders have, they'll gladly pass it on to our military.... The ones that we need: in tactics, combat operations."

When asked about the possibility of Wagner attempting a mutiny in Belarus like they did in Russia last month, Lukashenko replied: "I don't think that Wagner will somehow rise up and turn its guns against the Belarusian authorities and the Belarusian state. Everything happens in life. But today I don't see such a situation."

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the Russian authorities "don't have either the ability or desire" to track Prigozhin's movements. All of the statements made by Moscow and Belarus regarding the fate of Wagner in the wake of the failed mutiny "remain relevant," he added.

In a short message on social media earlier this week, Prigozhin claimed that the botched uprising by his men was aimed at "fighting traitors and mobilizing the society" of Russia. "I think we succeeded in many of those goals," he claimed.

• Poland begins transfer of ground forces to border with Belarus
• Belarus Foreign Minister: 'If Poland adds a US military base, we might invite the Russian military to our country'

• As the Pentagon papers prove truer by the day, Airman First Class Jack Teixeira enters a plea
• Evidence shows Jack Teixeira was under investigation and surveillance for six months prior to Pentagon documents 'leak'
• The leaked plan to attack Russians in Syria revealed
• Navy vet Sarah Bils under investigation for running pro-Russian group that posted US files
• Pentagon leaker began sharing classified data earlier than thought - NYT
• Up to their old tricks again: New intelligence leaks expose American spying on UN chief Guterres
• Fallout: Leaked Pentagon docs reveal Taiwan unready for China strike
• Former intel officers: America's allies 'can't trust us' after 'disaster' intelligence leak

• Sweden's right-wing government abandons green energy agenda, passes bill to build nuclear power plants
• German AfD right wing party secures mayoral win, popularity surges

BREAKING: the Dutch government has COLLAPSED. FINALLY. After 10+ years of Mark Rutte's globalist destruction policies, we now have a real chance of getting our country back.

From what I can tell about the situation now, I think the actual fall of the cabinet itself is all for show. The 'disagreement' about immigration that they're mentioning as the deciding factor, is not the real issue, because all government parties are in favour of more mass migration, including Mark Rutte's VVD.

Other than Poland, and Hungary, the vast majority of governments that have been formed may claim to be against mass migration, but, ultimately most concede to the establishment agenda of mass migration.

Rutte just seems to think that he can trick the Dutch people into believing that he actually wants a stricter immigration policy this time around, and he thinks he can get re-elected again if he makes these false new promises.

Do not fall for it. We cannot let him win again.

If the Dutch people stop falling for his lies and get rid of him and his globalist policies once and for all, we can actually turn things around, stop the expropriation of our farmers, push back on immigration, and take back our national sovereignty from organisations like the EU and the WEF. In other words, this is a massive opportunity for us.

Let's pray that enough people have woken up and will actually vote for change this time. We will not get a second chance.

• The Netherlands makes it legal to euthanise terminally-ill children aged as young as 12 at their parents' request
• Netherlands gov't plans to restrict farmers to TWO cows per field with proposed draconian green laws at a cost of €6.7 billion

[The announcement, from the Washington Post] is accompanied by false statements that Russia has used such ammunition in Ukraine:

It follows months of internal administration debate over whether to supply the controversial munitions, which are banned by most countries in the world.

Cluster weapons explode in the air over a target, releasing dozens to hundreds of smaller submunitions across a wide area.

More than 120 countries have joined a convention banning their use as inhumane and indiscriminate, in large part because of high failure rates that litter the landscape with unexploded submunitions that endanger both friendly troops and civilians, often for decades after the end of a conflict. The United States, Ukraine and Russia — which is alleged to have used them extensively in Ukraine — are not parties to the convention. Eight of NATO's 31 members, including the United States, have not ratified the convention.

It is well documented, by Human Rights Watch and others, that the Ukrainian military has used cluster munitions. There is nothing to support a claim that Russia has done so. The Pentagon has rejected claimed evidence of Russian cluster munition attacks:

Commenting on videos depicting alleged Russian cluster munition use, DOD officials stated during a March 1, 2022 press conference that "we've seen the same video that you have but we have not assessed that it is definitive with respect to the use of cluster munitions. So we are not in a position to confirm the use of cluster munitions at this time." In a similar manner, a DOD official stated during March 3, 2022, press conference that DOD was still unable to confirm Russia's use of cluster munitions.

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Last year the Congressional Research Service found that the real dud rate is higher than what the Pentagon claims:

There appear to be significant discrepancies among failure rate estimates. Some manufacturers claim a submunition failure rate of 2% to 5%, whereas mine clearance specialists have frequently reported failure rates of 10% to 30%. A number of factors influence submunition reliability. These include delivery technique, age of the submunition, air temperature, landing in soft or muddy ground, getting caught in trees and vegetation, and submunitions being damaged after dispersal, or landing in such a manner that their impact fuzes fail to initiate.

The Pentagon claims that the ammunition it will provide has a lower dud rate. But it never produced data from tests that would support its claims.

By agreeing to provide the munition Biden is circumventing or breaking the law:

There is no waiver provision in the 1 percent limit Congress has placed on cluster munition dud rates, written into Defense Department appropriations for the last seven years. Biden would bypass it and Congress, according to a White House official, drawing down the munitions from existing defense stocks under a rarely used provision of the Foreign Assistance Act, which allows the president to provide aid, regardless of appropriations or arms export restrictions, as long as he determines that it is in the vital U.S. national security interest.

Unfortunately neither Congress nor the courts are likely to intervene.

The cluster ammunition, like the Uranium tank ammunition the U.S. and Britain have sent to Ukraine, will make large parts of the country inhabitable and unusable for agricultural purposes. It will also make attacks and retreats through affected areas difficult for military forces on both sides.

Cluster ammunition was made during the cold war for defending against large scale armored attacks. They are imprecise area attack weapons. Their usefulness against the small unit attacks with a handful of tanks which we have often seen during this war is doubtful.

As the U.S. has run out of other ammunition what will it provide to Ukraine after the DPICM fail to turn around the fate of the Ukrainian army?

Chemical weapons? Nukes?