Color Revolution-beleaguered Belarusian President Lukashenko surprised the world on Sunday after exiting a helicopter that landed on his palace grounds while dressed in body armor and holding an AK -47, which was a risky soft power stunt that could either do wonders for his image or completely backfire on him. Belarusian President Lukashenko pulled a…
Why Did Russia Reaffirm Its CSTO Support To Belarus But Not To Armenia? Russia’s reaffirmation of its CSTO mutual defense obligations to Belarus was made in response to Lukashenko’s claims that NATO poses a threat to Belarus, which Moscow evidently believes are at least credible enough to remind the alliance about its red line, whereas…
There is a misperception in western media that Lukashenko is Putin’s man. That is not true; Putin views him as an exasperating and rather dim legacy. There is also a misperception in the west that Lukashenko really lost the recent election. That is not true. He almost certainly won, though the margin is much exaggerated…
The Geopolitics Of The Belarusian Crisis: Anti-Russian, Neutral To China, Pro-Polish The Belarusian Crisis is an American Hybrid War against Russian interests in support of Poland’s US-backed regional ones related to the “Three Seas Initiative”, which won’t harm China’s interests even in the worst-case scenario despite Beijing’s plans for the Eurasian Land Bridge to transit…
The situation in Belarus is evolving very rapidly, and not for the better, to say the least. A lot has been going on, but here is a summary of what are the most crucial developments in my opinion: Last Sunday was a major success for the Belarusian opposition: huge crowds took to the streets of…
Like all countries, Russia is imperfect and its strategies can always be improved upon, especially in regards to the ongoing Hybrid War on Belarus which surprisingly seems to have caught the Kremlin off guard and forced it to abruptly adapt to increasingly frequent twists and turns that it failed to anticipate. Undeniable Trouble Most observers…
