>>63748973
>I don't think you're well versed on this subject at all.
Yes I am

>>63748973
>1/ Belarus already buys rocket and missile systems from China and produces them under license (see Polonez and Polonez-M). Buying jets would make sense if they can't get adequate jets from Russia.
And both Russia and Belarus and Ukraine buy drones from China. You have no idea what a difference it is from rockets to Jets.
Furthermore, I will remind you that Belarus also has systems that it developed in cooperation with Ukraine, where the political distance is even more obvious. And further emphasizes how that was then and this is now.

>2/ In the immediate years before 2020, and even during much of that year, Belarus and Russia weren't on good terms at all.
I know exactly what you are talking about and it's entirely irrelevant. Belarus has for a long time tried to play the game of quasi neutrality, using the threat of foreign cooperation to get money and favors from its local hegemon, which is exactly what every minor nation does, most infamously Turkey. That policy was since discarded. In Belarus, I mean, Turks are still being roaches about it.
>It's only after the elections when the West turned on Belarus that Lukashenko ran towards Putin's embrace.
That's a particularly queer way to put it, but not entirely incorrect.
Again, unitary state. The divide between Russia and Belarus was always blown way out of proportion, much as it is done with Russia and China now, but now their military is integrated to the point where Russia is holding nukes in Belarus. There is no situation in which Belarus buys Jets outside of Russia. There is a situation in which Belarus gives up on jets entirely and buys Chinese drones instead, for example, but not jets. That's not actually going to happen either, they'll get their planes from Russia eventually.

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