Another Stupid Hoax

From Russia Today:
"Belarus “invaded by NATO from Ukraine”"

This goes along the same lines as the Georgian hoax that said the Russians had invaded Georgia. This time it was a Russian media source that said NATO troops had invaded Belarus from the Ukraine. This caused some panic in Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia.

Of course this doesn't make any sense since NATO troops wouldn't need to invade Belarus through the Ukraine (a non NATO country) but could do so from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia (all NATO countries.) Secondly, I don't think NATO would ever invade Belarus especially since Belarus is in a unified state with Russia and invading Belarus would mean invading Russia - and history has shown us that anyone who tries to invade Russia never wins.

Regardless, this was a hoax meant to scare people and it did just that. No media source from any place in the world should ever abuse it's influence to scare people. They are there simply to inform people about the facts and not stir-up panic. I believe (just like I did in the Georgian case) that this Russian media source should be punished to the full extent of Russian law.

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-04-14/belarus-invaded-nato-ukraine.html