Excerpts from this October 27, 2022, article from the European Council on Overseas Relations:
However the Belarusian military doesn’t have the capability to show the tide of the warfare in favour of Russia.
Firstly, it’s too small, with probably the most combat-ready phase not exceeding 15,000 troops. The rest are about as environment friendly as Russia’s ragtag bunch of latest conscripts. Furthermore, the Ukrainian armed forces are actually a lot better ready for an assault from the north: they’ve mined the roads and fields on the border with Belarus, destroyed the related bridges, and fashionable Western weapons corresponding to HIMARS anti-tank missiles might stop troops even crossing the border.
Secondly, Belarusian society is overwhelmingly towards the nation’s participation within the warfare – greater than 90 per cent reject the concept of becoming a member of on the facet of Russia. Sending Belarusians to warfare might due to this fact provoke a critical wave of discontent inside the nation, much more so than Putin’s mobilisation has in Russia. The Belarusian democratic forces in exile would probably use this to overthrow the Lukashenka regime.