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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has paid an unexpected visit to a detention center in Minsk, meeting incarcerated members of the so-called ‘Coordination council of the opposition’.
The unusual move was reported by local media on Saturday, with a short video from the meeting emerging on social media later in the day.
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WNU Editor: This trip to the prison is interesting. I do not see Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko making a compromise that would lessen his power. So why did he go? To offer some vague set of reforms to defuse the unrest. If so. It failed.
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Maybe Lukashenko can make decisions on average somewhat better than a committee. Still that committee or succession of them will muddle through. Whereas the population as whole will not accept fiat rule. A person has to accept it humble themselves and move on and let the committee handle things. Maybe he is doing it, because he believes (or can) do it better and/or self enrichment. Still he should have moved on.
The longer and harder he holds on he might move into Ceaușescu territory.
Every place has a seating card, that should tell you a lot.
Except of course Lukashenko.
I thought he won the election. To the best I can tell, evidence that he cheated hasn't been provided. The US government apoears to support the opposition but hasn't provided evidence that the elected leader cheated.
Perhaps it's a trial run. Say Trump wins the elections. The opposition alleges "cheating," engages in mass protests, and garners international support but doesn't have to provide actual proof of electoral fraud.
Good observation, but maybe you could spell it out. It could be that Lukashenko does not know each and every opposition leader and they may only 90% of the other leaders. Or it may be what I think you are suggesting.
I don't think it pays for a hard ass dictator to soften up. He just falls quicker. For the dictator himself it is better for him to flee for political asylum or crack down harder. With the latter he may stay in power longer or until natural death, but I think the state still fails. The only exceptions being China and North Korea.
Cuba could also be considered an exception. although it could be that Cuba used Venezuela as a sacrificial anode.
The flowers were a nice touch. Shows Lukashenko's softer side.
There was a super secret plan to get hold of the ballots and audit them. The 82nd airborne was going to conduct combat landings in Dakota gliders into various Byelorussian cities. It would work too, because the Dakota gliders would have special stealth coatings and be towed by B2 bombers to their launch point in eastern Poland, where they would detach the cables. The cables themselves would be made up of one super strong carbon monofilament and thus it would also be invisible to radar.
Upon securing the the voting sites and ballot boxes, The Donald would personally visit Jimmy Carter and beseech him to get with his buddies and audit the election. The White House science advisor also ran past an idea to The Donald of digging up Boss Tweed and doing that Jurassic Park thing. Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed. Boss Tweed could have been a real asset, because eh knew every trick in the book. The thought was that he would defect to Lukashenko and that is why that idea was scrapped.
Ultimately PEnce put the kebosh on the while thing, since he thought the ememedia would flip the narrative simple by saying "Orange Man Bad."
Or it could be that the NSA read the intercepts and so the PREZ and the Joint Chiefs know, but if we give the proof than the Byelorussians and others that we can read the Byelorussian ciphers and they would change the code. Russia a, Iran, China and others might get a little hinky if they knew we could read Byelorussian coded traffic and they would all change their ciphers.
Personally, I think the 1st story makes more sense. What do you think?
You're definitely on the right track.
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