And anyway, what you going to do? Actually maybe the Dems could sent their A Team over to help Lukashenko’s opponent get creative at the polls, worked in USA.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
Yea, well the self loathing of the Western leaders, and their system of making the citizens self loathing too, is not much prettier a sight. There can be no doubt the Western leaders from JFK and Harold Wilson forward have been out to destroy their own nations through institutional ‘Self Harm’.
JFK/Macmillan – – LBJ/Wilson – – Nixon/Heath – – Ford/Wilson – – Reagan/Thatcher – – Bush/Major – – Clinton/Blair – – Bush/Brown – – Obama/Cameron. They make a great set of couples, but what a lineup of looses as the Heads of the Free world (except for Reagan/Thatcher) AND NOW ****** Biden/Boris!!!!!! whooho.
There is definitely a kind of Synchronicity in which person UK and USA select.
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Andrew Baldwin
2 years ago
Daniel seems a little snide in writing: “Lukashenko is obviously aware that he presides over a land of farms and forests, 25% of which was heavily contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster, so he has nothing anybody really wants.” It is also a natural trans-shipment route for pipelines and like Ukraine, makes a lot of money from trans-shipment fees. If you just look at the raw data, it is the 69th economy in the world in 2021 according to IMF GDP on a PPP basis estimates, ahead of EU members Slovakia (70th) and Bulgaria (73rd). I never followed those events closely, but I was a little surprised that Lukashenko did survive the attempts to oust him. Follow the link to read how Bad Vlad has supposedly tightened the vice on Lukashenko and it seems Lukashenko has been reasonably successful in maintaining Belarusan autonomy. Whatever happens, when Lukashenko goes, the NATO idiots should never ever try to get Belarus to join their alliance. We have seen what such efforts did for Georgia and Ukraine.
Ian Perkins
2 years ago
It’s interesting to contrast how quickly and vehemently Western politicians and media have denounced the arrest of Roman Protasevich with their rather muted and belated responses to the USA’s ‘extraordinary renditions’, or to the forcing down of Evo Morales’ plane because Edward Snowden was thought to be a passenger – with which many European governments actively colluded by denying it entry to their airspace.
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Andrea X
2 years ago
ProtestErs
Drahcir Nevarc
2 years ago
Belarus is to Russia is as North Korea is to China, except for the nuclear weapons.
Arnold Grutt
2 years ago
Why don’t we just recognise that the history of continental ‘Europe’ (both east and west) has been largely the history of this type of Government, which seems to suit ‘Europeans’, since they keep on choosing it?
Odd ‘liberal’ episodes aside, it will always be the same. The only thing that changes is the man in the military uniform (Hitler, De Gaulle, Franco, etc. etc. etc.)
Unfortunately, point 3 is the most important, and correct one.
“remember that the West is highly unlikely to go beyond a few symbolic gestures.”
Good. None of our business.
And anyway, what you going to do? Actually maybe the Dems could sent their A Team over to help Lukashenko’s opponent get creative at the polls, worked in USA.
Yea, well the self loathing of the Western leaders, and their system of making the citizens self loathing too, is not much prettier a sight. There can be no doubt the Western leaders from JFK and Harold Wilson forward have been out to destroy their own nations through institutional ‘Self Harm’.
sooooo
JFK/Macmillan – – LBJ/Wilson – – Nixon/Heath – – Ford/Wilson – – Reagan/Thatcher – – Bush/Major – – Clinton/Blair – – Bush/Brown – – Obama/Cameron. They make a great set of couples, but what a lineup of looses as the Heads of the Free world (except for Reagan/Thatcher) AND NOW ****** Biden/Boris!!!!!! whooho.
There is definitely a kind of Synchronicity in which person UK and USA select.
Daniel seems a little snide in writing: “Lukashenko is obviously aware that he presides over a land of farms and forests, 25% of which was heavily contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster, so he has nothing anybody really wants.” It is also a natural trans-shipment route for pipelines and like Ukraine, makes a lot of money from trans-shipment fees. If you just look at the raw data, it is the 69th economy in the world in 2021 according to IMF GDP on a PPP basis estimates, ahead of EU members Slovakia (70th) and Bulgaria (73rd). I never followed those events closely, but I was a little surprised that Lukashenko did survive the attempts to oust him. Follow the link to read how Bad Vlad has supposedly tightened the vice on Lukashenko and it seems Lukashenko has been reasonably successful in maintaining Belarusan autonomy. Whatever happens, when Lukashenko goes, the NATO idiots should never ever try to get Belarus to join their alliance. We have seen what such efforts did for Georgia and Ukraine.
It’s interesting to contrast how quickly and vehemently Western politicians and media have denounced the arrest of Roman Protasevich with their rather muted and belated responses to the USA’s ‘extraordinary renditions’, or to the forcing down of Evo Morales’ plane because Edward Snowden was thought to be a passenger – with which many European governments actively colluded by denying it entry to their airspace.
ProtestErs
Belarus is to Russia is as North Korea is to China, except for the nuclear weapons.
Why don’t we just recognise that the history of continental ‘Europe’ (both east and west) has been largely the history of this type of Government, which seems to suit ‘Europeans’, since they keep on choosing it?
Odd ‘liberal’ episodes aside, it will always be the same. The only thing that changes is the man in the military uniform (Hitler, De Gaulle, Franco, etc. etc. etc.)