The Belarusian opposition began to declare its readiness to cooperate with Russia
The Belarusian opposition, after it failed to quickly take power, began to declare its readiness to cooperate with Russia.
Political scientist Sergei Mikheev stated this on the air of the Vesti FM radio station, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The opposition and the forces supporting it abroad realized that it was not possible to change the situation by force. I was especially amused by Tikhanovskaya’s words that she was waiting for Putin’s call. If Putin called her, she would have found something to say. I must disappoint Tikhanovskaya: Putin is not going to call her,” the political scientist noted.
At the same time, he believes that the time for contacts between the Kremlin and the opposition has passed.
“The opposition came to its senses and realized that it was impossible to ignore the Russian issue and appeal to forces that are anti-Russian in Belarus. This is an objective necessity. Over the weekend, there were several statements by members of the opposition coordination council that they were going to build normal relations with Russia and would even build relations with Russia better than Lukashenko. Belated insight.
If the Belarusian oppositionists had correctly assessed the situation, then the first call should have been not to Brussels, not to Warsaw, not to Vilnius, not to Washington, but to Moscow. But the people who supervise them don’t understand this. Now they are trying to catch up, but it looks ridiculous and shows weakness. Lukashenko is in touch with Moscow, and the opposition has no way to intercept this connection. If they had done this on August 9, who knows, maybe in the situation at that time events would have developed differently,” Mikheev said.
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