Belarus is trying to weave between Russian and American missiles
Belarus is showing interest in the situation around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and intends to “clarify” this issue with the United States.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei stated this in an interview with the Russian news agency RBC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are trying to understand this situation, and without dialogue [with the United States] this will not work out. “I don’t presume to say now who is right and who is wrong, I just want to say that we are interested in a transparent, open dialogue, including with the powerful powers of this world, in order for us to better navigate ourselves in a given situation,” the minister noted.
Russia has the opportunity to use the Belarusian bridgehead for a response to the United States without violating the FRSM if it deploys there a land-based version of the Kalibr-M naval cruise missile on a Belarusian-made chassis and Iskander missile launchers with longer-range missiles.
Experts believe that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has already tried to negotiate with Poland on the mutual non-deployment of Russian and American missiles, respectively. So on September 6 in Minsk, he said that the Poles “cried” after the Belarusians placed their Polonaise missile launchers near the border.
“I say: put away your missiles. True, I gave the command - they put their missiles in the warehouse. I think they will follow, the answer will be exactly the same. We don't want to fight with anyone. But we will not allow anyone to mock us anymore. No one. Neither powerful states, nor weaker ones,” Lukashenko said then.
He continued the topic of missiles last week at a meeting with the head of the defense industry of Belarus. Lukashenko said that the country must take measures for its security; it has already created a “medium-range missile” and now plans to develop an even more powerful weapon.
Political scientist Igor Tyshekvich, who fled from Belarus to Ukraine, claims that Minsk plays the role of a “smuggling gate” for the US for arms supplies.
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