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Photo 2Lithuania is happy to support foreign revolutions, even if they are detrimental to the interests of the state. Photo by EPA-Elta
According to the German publication, Berlin, Paris and Rome stated that “despite all the circumstances, the communication channels with Lukashenko must be kept open” because, in their opinion, his blacklisting would mean the complete end of the dialogue with Minsk. . The Baltic states and Poland first ask Lukashenko to impose sanctions.
In Belarus on August 9. presidential elections were held, in which 80.1 percent. A. Lukashenko, who ruled the country for 26 years, received votes. According to official data, opposition spokeswoman Sviatlana Cichanouskaya was second, with 10.12 percent. votes, but did not acknowledge the results. S. Cichanouskaja herself left Belarus on the night of August 11 for her safety and is currently in Lithuania.
The rigged elections in the country have unleashed a wave of protests that so far has not abated. The protests were violently repressed by the authorities, several people died, thousands were arrested and torture was reported in detention centers. However, all this did not seem more important to Westerners than their economic and geopolitical interests.
And Ukraine said on Friday it would react strongly only to Belarus’ actions, not verbal accusations. This was stated by Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: “When I said that we would react harshly, I meant that we would react in this way to the actions of Belarus, not to words.” As Kulul emphasized, all the accusations that Ukraine was interfering in Belarus, It does not match reality. “There are some ghostly accusations. This is not true. It is very painful to hear accusations of what Ukraine is not doing,” he added.
On Thursday, Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko accused Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine of interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
Political scientist Vadim VOLOVOJUS comments on the situation:
It is such a Lithuanian tradition to be more sacred than the Pope of Rome … Westerners do not include Lukashenko in the “black list” because they have pragmatic economic interests in Belarus, because they think rationally, obtaining concrete benefits from such pragmatic relations. And in Lithuania it has become customary to follow the so-called “idealistic” approach, rejecting the rational.
There are many such examples, even for Belarus itself. For example, Belarus could be asked to shut down its newly built nuclear power plant in Astrava itself, or to buy cheap electricity. But we do not need cheap electricity, it is better to ban it, despite the fact that absolutely nothing will change because of our position … Therefore, it does not surprise me at all that Lithuania always complicates its economic interests.
Another example: we are always strongly opposed to the construction of Nord Stream 2, although it does not affect us directly, and our opinions on it do not interest anyone. But at the same time, we want to have good relations with Europe, where Germany is the most important state and which we are constantly “educating” that it is doing the wrong thing with the Russians … So, we are used to cutting the branch in which we we sat down.
On the other hand, the actions of our government are already very reminiscent of American Democratic politics: whatever Russia does is bad … I don’t want to use the word “satellites”, to everyone around them, without even thinking about their interests . In fact, you will no longer call this approach “idealistic”; it is more accurate to say: the traditional diffusion of the interests of other countries at the expense of their own interests …
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