Law enforcement officers stand behind barbed wire during an opposition demonstration to protest against presidential election results, in Minsk, Belarus August 23, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Melinda Haring, National Interest: Why Lukashenko Will Prevail in Belarus
Large-scale protests are expected this weekend, but they may not be enough to threaten Lukashenko’s rule in any serious fashion.
For twenty-six years, Alexander Lukashenko has reigned supreme over Belarus, the sleepy eastern European nation of nine million people nestled between Poland and Russia.
Opposition movements come and go with regularity, but Lukashenko has effectively quashed any form of dissidence.
This time it’s not proving quite as easy as in the past. First of all, his countrymen are fed up. He has botched the response to the coronavirus, exhorting his countrymen to get on their tractors (without masks, of course) and adopt the novel course of quaffing vodka to repel the virus. The resulting astronomical rates of the coronavirus were to be expected (some of the highest in Europe), but Belarusians were less than impressed. They banded together and provided personal protective gear and medical help in a way that prompted many to question why they pay taxes to an incompetent authoritarian in the first place.
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WNU Editor: I mentioned in a previous post that Belarusians are not like Russians, Ukrainians, or any other group in eastern Europe. They are kind, trusting, tolerant, and .... IMHO from my many interactions with friends and contacts in Belarus .... soft. I can leave my cell phone in a bar in Minsk and come back the next day and it will still be there. And I am not even going to mention the women. Women in Russia, Ukraine, and most places on the planet do not trust men. Women in Belarus do. But in the past few months Belarus has changed. President Lukashenko is in trouble, and he is now completely dependent on the Kremlin for his survival. The opposition is now organizing, and I predict that they will achieve unity and the proper leadership over time. When that day happens is something that no one knows. But the people in Belarus are now awake, and they have no loyalty to President Lukashenko. His days are numbered.
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I would like to see some verbal support from DJT and America in general. I see the younger generation on the earth beginning to unite against the incompetent and self serving things that have wormed their way into power. Iraq is a great example. Lebanon is collapsing, Palestinians are in despair and are beginning to see the light. The cellphone and internet have weakened the hold on power these things had.
The cleansing will take years but it has begun and I hope the people of earth will benefit in time.
Mike,
You should read my emails.
This is nothing.
I am going to delete these useless comments.
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I just accidentally deleted your comment with the 12 others.
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